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V
THE

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS

OP

A. CITIZEN OF LONDON

IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

containing:

I. JOHN PAGE'S POEM ON THE SIEGE OF ROUEN.
II. LYDGATE'S VERSES ON THE KINGS OF ENGLAND.
III. WILLIAM GREGORY'S CHRONICLE OF LONDON.

EDITED VY

JAMES GAIRDNER.

PRINTED FOR THE CAMDEN SOCIETY.

M.DCCC.LZZVI.

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WESTMINSTER :

PRINTED BY NICHOLS AND SONS,

25, PARLIAMENT STREET.

[NEW SERIES XVII.]

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COUNCIL OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY

FOR THE YEAR 1876-77.

Preiidenty

THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF VERULAM, F.R.G.S.

WILLIAM CHAPPELL, ESQ. F.8.A., Trea$urer,

HENRY CHARLES COOTE, ESQ. F.S.A.

JAMES GAIRDNER, ESQ.

SAMUEL RAWSON GARDINER, ESQ., Director.

WILLIAM OXENHAM HEWLETT, ESQ.

ALFRED KINGSTON, ESQ., Secretary,

SIR JOHN MACLEAN, F.S.A.

FREDERIC OUVRY, ESQ. V.P. S.A.

THE EARL OF POWIS, LLJ).

JAMES ORCHARD PHILLIPPS, ESQ., F.R.S., F.S.A.

EVELYN PHILIP SHIRLEY, ESQ., M.A.

REV. W. SPARROW SIMPSON, D.D. F.S.A.

JAMES SPEDDING, ESQ.

WILUAM JOHN THOMS, ESQ. F.S.A.

J. R. DANIEL-TYSSBN, ESQ. F.S.A.

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The Ck>nNCiL of the Camden Sooibtt desire it to be understood
that they are not answerable for any opinions or observations that
may appear in the Society's publications; the Editors of the several
Works being alone responsible for the same.

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Among tke MSS. now In the Egerton Collection in the British
Museum is a small folio volume, numbered 1995 in that collection,
which was purchased in 1866 at the sale of the books of the late
Earl of Charlemont. The contents are varied, consisting of poems,
statistics, scraps of various kinds, a rhyming chronicle and a prose
chronicle; but, with the exception of a very few idle scribblings of
more modem date in the margins and fly-leaves, the handwriting
throughout is of the fifteenth century, and the whole appears to be
the work of one scribe only. The volume consists altogether of
223 leaves of paper; but the prose chronicle at the end is imperfect,
and one or two leaves have probably been lost.

Originally the MS. seems to have formed two volumes, which
are now bound together in one. The sheets in each separate quire
of paper are distinguished by signatures at the bottom, " a 1/*
" a 2/' &c., and a new set of signatures begin at folio 110 with
Lydgate's verses on the Kings of England. I^ot a single lesif
appears to be missing to make up a quire except at the very end.

The matters contained in the book are as follows: —
1. An English version of the poem called *' The Seven Sages of
Rome," beginning —

Herkenyth lordynges, curteys and hende,
Howe thys gentylle geste shall ende.
Bum tyme there was an Emperoure
That ladde hys lyfe with moche honowre.
Hys name was Dioclician.

This extends over 104 pages, beginning at foL 3.
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2. A short poem on the words : " Memento, homo, quod cinis
es et in cinerem rcverteris." It is a rather expanded version of the
well-known lines, " Earth upon Earth," fol. 55.

3. Notes of the ** properties " of a young gentleman, the condi-
tions of a good greyhound, a vocabulary of the terms of venery, &c.,
fols. 556—58.

4. A poem on courtesy, beginning —

Litylle chyldrynne here may ye lere
Moche curtesy that ys wretyn here.

5. A few scraps, among which are rules how to interpret the
weather at Christmas, &c., as presaging future events, fols. 60 — 62.

6. A classification of beasts of venery and of the chace &c. ; also
of the different kinds of hawks; fols. 63, 64.

7. **A nobylle tretys of medysyns for mannys body," fols.
65—77.

8. *' Sapiencia phisicorum," a poem on the preservation of health,
fols. 77t— 78.

9. " For bloode latynge," another poem, fols. 79, 80.

10. The assize of bread and ale, as in Statutes of the Realm, i.
199, fols. 806, 81.

11. The names of the churches in the City of London, fols.
82—86.

12. A poem on " The Siege of Rouen," fols. 87—109.

13. Lydgate's verses on the Kings of England, fols. 110 — 112.

14. A Chronicle of London, fols. 113—222.

It is clear from this table of contents that the MS. is a common-
place book, into which the writer has transcribed a number of
things that interested him. But with regard to the Chronicle at
the end tlie appearance of the MS. seems to favour the supposition
that the latter part at least is an original composition, not tran-
scribed from any other MS.; so that if we could only determine

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the author we should probably be justified in assuming that the
whole book was in his handwriting ; for the heaviness of the
hand, the irregularity of the spelling, and the gross transcriber's
errors that abound in some parts, indicate a writer who was not
well trained in regular clerical labour. Yet in this latter part of
the work, from the middle, or at least firom the close, of Henry the
Sixth's reign onwards, though clerical and grammatical errors are
abundant enough, there is no evidence of that special kind of
blundering which marks the work of a copyist, and which is very
frequent in the earlier pages — nonsense made by the omission of lines
or the misreading of words, confusion of the original punctuation,
and misapprehension of the author's meaning. In this part the
errors are rather like those of a hasty careless writer, who composed
with pen in hand, omitting sometimes a word or part of a word in
his haste, but leaving the sense of what he meant to write sufficiently
obvious.

The different treatises and scraps contained in the book seem
to have been entered in the order in which they stand, the hand-
writing exhibiting just such a gradual change from the beginning
to the end of the volume as naturally takes place in the character
of any man's writing in the course of several years; and it is
probable that the first treatise, '* The Seven Sages of Home," was
transcribed when the penman was rather a young man. It is
certainly far more carefiiUy written than the latter contents of the
volume.

But who was this penman and chronicler? In a modem note
written on a fly-leaf at the end of the book it is said that the
author of the Chronicle was one Gregory Skinner (meaning William
Gregory of the Skinners' Company) who was Mayor of London in
1451, the thirtieth year of Henry VI. And when we turn to the
Chronicle itself the fact seems to be pretty well borne out by what

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the author himself says In the record of that year. For the words
he uses are as follows:

And that year came a legate from the Pope of Home with great
pardon, for that pardon was the greatest pardon that ever come to
England from the Conquest unto this time of my year being mayor of
London.

When it is considered that *' Gregory Skinner, Mayor of London
Anno XXX '^ stands at the end of this paragraph, the inference
appears to be sufficiently obvious that he was the author of the
Chronicle, and, therefore, that the whole contents of the volume are
in his handwriting. This opinion, indeed, seemed to me to rest upon
so sure a basis that I had no hesitation in calling the narrative
<' Gregory's Chronicle,'^ with whicl
volume. But at the last moment, ^
Gregory's life, I was fortunate, or \
evidence the most conclusive that h
Chronicle comes to an end ; for his
the end of this Introduction, was
1466 (or, according to the modem
Chronicle is continued in the sar
Edward IV. (1469). It is quite cl
Gregory wrote the part relating tc
not have been the author of the w
the MS.

I must own that the effect of this
me doubt whether the name of ** G
together a misnomer; for it was not
the passage in which his authorship
his composition. It was open to
*' this time of my year being mayor,
time of which the passage in questio:

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it was written. And it was even conceivable that the real writer
and the year of his mayoralty were originally disclosed at the end
of the work, which is now lost. But on the whole it iseemed to me
more probable that this was really Gregory's Chronicle, transcribed
and continued by another hand ; and on careful examination of the
text I found various evidences that tended to confirm me in this
opinion.

In the first place — though the fact might suggest an opposite in-
ference — ^it was a little- remarkable that in this thirtieth year not
only the name of Gregory himself as mayor but also those of the two
sheriffs are entered in a manner quite unusual in this narrative. Only
the surnames without the Christian name of any one of the civic

^/c i.^«^4.«i.^«j -A *i.^ v^^A -^ *^i8 mayor's year, although in the

18 been supplied in a later hand,
the whole Chronicle in which
ic officers have been omitted;
he sheriffs are mentioned only
the mayor.

m's own Christian name does
ip, for it is a thing that could
sty, and if owing to ignorance
isively the other way. But
A> which it may more reason-
in this instance surnames only
>r and his two sheriffs agrees
le labours of office had inter-
the Chronicle, and that the
oint, with a very brief memo-
year of his own mayoralty,
been cranscribed by another
le year 1469 or later.

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And this hypothesis seems rather 'to beconBrmed by another fact,
viz., that whereas the record of the years immediately preceding is
remarkably fall and accurate, especially for the twenty- eighth year,
the year of Cade's rebellion, it is quite otherwise just after the
thirtieth year is passed. The record of the five or six years
immediately following, though it was a time of great political
excitement and witnessed the beginning of the Wars of the Roses,
is singularly jejune, especially as regards great public events, and
the chronology is vitiated by the entire omission of one year from
the annals. So remarkable a change in the character of the
narrative — from fulness to emptiness and from accuracy to in-
accuracy — ^is perhaps the best reason for supposing that the Chronicle
as far as the thirtieth year was really the work of Gregory. For it
seems as if just after that year the work must have been laid aside,
and that it was taken up — presumably by a different^ hand — several
years later.

Moreover, in the part which we suppose to be Gregory's, viz.
from the nineteenth to the thirtieth year of Henry VI., a minute
examination reveals some errors which may have been very well
due to the transcriber. In the twenty-third year it is stated that
the King made forty-six Knights of the Bath on Thursday the
26th day of May. This is wrong according to the calendar of
the year, and the error is evidently due to a misreading of the
numeral ** xxvij.'* as " xxvj." Again, the twenty-sixth year of
the reign is altogether omitted — not even the names of the mayor
and sheriffs for that year are given. Yet the chronology is not
vitiated by this omission as in the case of a similar blunder in the
later part It is an omission pure and simple, and the general
account of the events is such as could only have been written by
a well-informed contemporary. There is however a piece of erro-
neous information in the twenty-seventh year, which I think may

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be best accounted for by supposing a sentence or two to have been
omitted by a careless transcriber. It is as follows : —

That same year was a treaty of truce taken with the Scots by Master
Adam Moleyns for four years, that time he being ambassador into
Scotland, and after Privy Seal, and then y-made bishop of Chichester,
and within short time after put to death.

The 27th year of Henry VI. extended from the Ist September
1448 to the 31st August 1449. Adam de Moleyns, Bishop of
Chichester, was put to death in January 1450, so that the above
paragraph might very well have been written not many months
after the conclusion of the truce referred to. But unfortunately
the truce was not made for anything like a period of four years; it
was in fact only for six weeks, from the 10th August to the 20th
September 1449.* Adam de Moleyns does not seem to have been
ambassador in Scotland, for the negociations took place at Win-
chester; and most certainly it was not ** after that" that he was
made Privy Seal and Bishop of Winchester, for he had enjoyed the
latter dignity since the year 1445, and the former from the year
1444. I do not see any perfect explanation of this maze of errors;
but, if (as is quite possible) Adam de Moleyns was ambassador
to Scotland on a former occasion, we may suppose that a line or
two may have been omitted by the transcriber just before the
words " for four years." If the errors be not due to some such
cause as this, the passage must be an ignorant interpolation of later
date written from a confused recollection of the facts. There are
no other inaccuracies comparable to these in the part we attribute
to Gregory.

With these remarks we must leave the Chronicle for the present^

■ Rymer, xL 232.

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as there is other matter in the volume which ought first to claim
our attention.

Of the fourteen separate articles contained in the MS., almost every
one except the Chronicle is to be met with elsewhere, and, the three .
last alone being of a historical character, they only are printed in this
volume. Of the others there is little need to say anything except as
to No. 1 1, which is a list of the parish churches and monasteries in
the City of London. A similar list is printed in Fabyan's Chronicle
(pp. 295-8, Ellis's edition), and another in Arnold's Chronicle,
(pp. 75-77). But these lists do not correspond, the churches being
named in each in a different order, and even with different totals
as to number. Thus the whole number of parish churches in
London (within the city) is according to Fabyan 113, according to
Arnold 118, and according to our MS. 115. But the total number
of churches and monasteries in and about London, including the
suburbs and also Southwark and Westminster, is given in our
MS. as 153. Besides the mere names and number of the churches,
however, special descriptions are given of the character of one or
two of the monastic foundations, which are so curious that we
transcribe them here:

Pappy Chyrche in the Walle be twyne Algate and Bevysse Markes.
And hyt ys a grete fraternyte of prestys and of othyr seqalar men. And
there ben founde of almys certayne prestys, bothe blynde and lame, that
be empotent ; and they hare day masse and xiiij d. a weke, barber and
launder, and one to dresse and proryde for hyr mete and drynke.

Bartholomewe ys Spetylle. Hyt ys a place of grete comforte to pore
men as for hyr loggyng, and yn specyalle unto yong wymmen that have
mysse done that ben whythe chylde. There they ben delyveryde, and
unto the tyme of puryfycacyon they have mete and drynke of the
placys coste, and fulle honestely, gydyd and kepte. And in ys moche
as the place maye they kepe hyr conselle and hyr worschyppe. God

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grannte that thej dpo so hyr owne worschippe that hare a-fendyde.
Amen.

A diTrche of Owre Lady that ys namyde Bedlem.* And yn that
place ben founde many men that ben fallyn owte of hyr wytte. And
folle honestely they ben kepte in that place ; and snm ben restoryde
nnto hyr wytte and helthe a-gayne. And snm ben a-bydyng there yn
for eyyr, for they ben falle soo moche owte of hem selfe that hyt ys
uncnrerabylle nnto man. And nnto that place ys granntyde moche
pardon, more thenne they of the place knowe.

Seynt Marye Spetylle. A poore pryery, and a parysche chyrche in
the same. And that pryory kepytho ospytalyte for pore men. And
snm snsters yn the same place to kepe the beddys for pore men that
come to that place.

In South wark :

Mary Overaye. Hyt ys a pryory of Mary Magdalene ; in the same
* Chanyns.

Thomas Spetylle.® And that same place ys and (sic) ospytalyte for pore
men and wymmen. And that nobyl marchaunt, Rycharde Whytyngdon,
made a newe chamby[r] with viij beddys for yong weme[n] that hadde
done a-mysse in trnste of a good mendement. And he commanndyd
that alle the thyngys that ben don in that chambyr shnlde be kepte
secrete with owte forthe, yn payne of lesynge of hyr levynge; for he
wolde not shame no yonge women in noo wyse, for hyt myght be canse
of hyr lettyng of hyr maryage, &c.

The Abbay of Barmondesay, Mary Magdalene ther by. That Abbay
ys of Blacke Monkys, and there ys grete offeryng unto the Crosse that
ys namyd Syn Savyoure.

Some of the facts contained in these extracts seem to be quite
unknown; and they go far to correct certain popular misappre-

■ It was then near Bishopsgate.

^ There was a blank here in the MS. which has been improperly filled np by the
mbricator with a mark % indicating a new paragraph.
St Thomas's Hospital.
CAMD. 80C. C

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hensions touching the useless unpractical character of monastic
institutions before the Reformation swept them all away. The
charities of the middle ages were perhaps not more redundant or
more misapplied than those of our own day, and many of them
were eminently beneficial. There were hospitals for the sick and
infirm, Ijring-in hospitals, asylums for the aged, the impotent, and
the insane. Bedlam existed then, and was devoted to the same
purposes as at present. And, whatever may have been the system
of treatment adopted for the patients, it appears that some were
cured ; and the charity of the age extended a large indulgence to
all who were so afflicted.

The poem on the Siege of Rouen has already been printed firom
other MSS., but not in a complete form. It was first brought to
light by the Rev. J. J. Conybeare, who in the twenty-first volume
of The Archaologia printed it from an imperfect copy in the
Bodleian MS. No. 124. The conclusion of the poem, which was
wanting in this MS., was afterwards supplied by Sir Frederic
Madden from two MSS. in the Harleian Collection (Nos. 2256 and
763), and was printed by him in the twenty-second volume of the
same publication. But never till now has the poem been published
as a whole, so as to be easily read through or consulted in one
volume. Moreover the text contained in the Egerton MS., from
which we now print it, differs a good deal here and there in
phraseology from that of the other MSS.; and though, perhaps, on
the whole, a trifle less polished, being, it appears, taken from a
first draft of the poem, it is on this very account all the more
interesting, as the relation of an eye-witness written while the im-
pression on his mind was still recent and vivid. At the end, too,
the author gives hb name, which is suppressed in other copies of

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the poem, with an excuse for the ruggednese of his rhymes, which
apparently he afterwards improved, as he says he intended to do :

With owiyn fabylle or fage,

Thys procesce made John Page

Alle in raffe and not in ryme,

By cause of space he hadde no tyme.

But whenne thys werre ys at an ende,

And he haye lyffe and space he wyll hit amende.

It thus appears that the poem was written during the continuance
of the war, very shortly after the events which it relates. As an
account of the siege of Souen by Henry the Fifth it certainly stands
unrivalled. No other contemporary writer states the &cts with so
much clearness, precision, minuteness, and graphic power. Yet the
language is simple and unpretentious, the author only seeking to
impart his own knowledge of the fiicts in the plainest possible
form:

Lystenythe unto me a lytylle space,

And I shalle telle you howe hyt was.

And the better telle I may,

For at that sege with the Eyng I lay,

And thereto I toke a vyse

Lyke as my wytt wolde sufiyce.

That his information was not only minute, but on the whole
exceedingly accurate, we have little reason to doubt. Tet it
abounds in details which are met with nowhere else; for although,
as remarked by Sir Frederic Madden, the chronicler Hall appears
to have been acquainted with this poem, even he made but slender
use of it, and scarcely any modem historian has hitherto made use
of it at all. Hereafter we may presume it will not be so neglected.

The siege and capture of Rouen were the crowning events of
Henry the Fifth's second invasion of France. His first expedition

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against that country was signalised by the splendid victory of
Agincourt; but no territorial advantage accrued from it. The
English only saved themselves from being cut to pieces or crushed
by overwhelming numbers. In his second invasion the case was
different. Town after town in Normandy opened its gates or was
taken by assault in the summer of 1417; and in the course of the
following year almost the whole duchy was in the hands of the
English. Eouen, the capital, however, still held out; for here the
enemy had gathered all their strength, and were prepared to make
the most obstinate resistance.

The following is a brief outline of the narrative contained in the
poem. After the capture of Pont de I'Arche, which opened to the
invaders a passage over the Seine (for hitherto their conquests had
been all on the western side of that river), the King despatched his
uncle, the Duke of Exeter, to Rouen to summon the city to
surrender, which it scornfully refused to do (p. 2). The Duke then
returned to the King at Pont de I'Arche, and those in command of
the city preparing for an attack destroyed the suburbs * (p. 3). The
fortifications of the city are then described, with the further pre-
parations for defence (pp. 4-6). The king came before it on Friday
before Lammas day, the 29th July, 1418 (p. 6). The positions
taken up by his lords and captains are related (pp. 6-10). The
Earl of Warwick after taking Domfront was sent to Caudebec,
which surrendered conditionally, agreeing to do as Rouen did, and
allowing the English meanwhile free passage up the Seine (p. 10).
Warwick then joins the besiegers, as also does the Bang's brother

» M. Fniseox points oat that this ** cursed deed/' as the poet calls it (inyolyiog
as it did the destruction of a number of chnrches), was dictated by considerations of
pmdence, the importance of which had been recently illustrated in the case of Caen.
The reluctance of the inhabitants to destroy the abbeys of St. Etienne and Ste.
Trinity had been the chief cause of the loss of that city.^Si^ge et Prise de
Rouen, 56.

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Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, coming from the siege of Cherbourg
(p. 11). It is then repoited that the French King and the Bur-
gundians are coming to relieve the city, and Henry prepares for
then^ (pp. 12, 13), The captains within are named and described
(pp. 13, 14). The King orders a ditch to be made round the town
(p. 16). Eenewed tidings of the coming of the Burgundians cause
the citizens to ring the bells with delight, but it turns out to be a
false rumour (p. 16). The King, however, endeavours to profit by
it, and adopts a stratagem to induce the citizens to come out and
attack him (p. 17).

The writer goes on to tell of the failure of provisions within the
city, the extraordinary prices given for horseflesh, dogs, cats, rats,
and mice, besides more ordinary food, such as eggs and apples
(p. 18) ; and he draws a fearfid picture of the sufferings of the
inhabitants:

They dyde faster every day

Thenn men^ myght them in erthe lay.

There as was pryde in ray before

Thenn was hyt put in sorowe falle soore.

Thereas was mete, drynke, and songe,

Then was sorowe and hanger stronge.

Tf the chylde schulde be dede,

The modyr wolde not gyf byt bredde,

Ne nought wolde parte byt a scheve

Thonghe sche wyste to save hys lyve ;

Ne the chylde the modyr gyffe ;

Every on caste hym for to leve

As longe as they myght laste.

Love and kyndenys bothe were paste.

Alle kyndenys love was besyde,

That the chylde schulde fro the modyr hyde,

To ete mete that shulde hyt not see,

And ete hyt alle in prevyti.

Bat hungyr passyd kynde and love, &c. (p. 19.)

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In the end it was found necessary to drive the poorer inhabitants
outside the city, where they remained in the ditches dependent for
food on the charity of the besiegers, and some died of cold (p. 20).
On Christmas day the King as an act of charity sent heralds to the
city, offering food to all who were in want of it, either within the
city or without, and safe-conduct to come and receive it. Those
within affected to despise the offer, and would scarcely allow two
priests and three men to come and relieve those outside (p. 21).
But on New Year's eve, as " hunger breaketh the stone wall," the
citizens proposed to treat (p. 22); for which purpose they conferred
with Sir Gilbert Umfraville (pp. 23-25). Umfraville carried their
message on New Year's day morning to the King, who consented
that twelve of the citizens should wait on him next day (pp. 26, 27);
and on the next day accordingly twelve delegates from the city
waited on Henry at St. Hilary's Gate (p. 28). Their interview
with the King is then described (pp. 29-32), and the King's lofty
and unmoved demeanour is particularly reported (p. 30). Next
day tents are pitched for a conference (p. 33), and the author is led
to contrast the splendour of heralds and pursuivants with the misery
of the poor people who had been put out of the city and had
scarcely clothes on their backs to protect them from the weather,
which was at that time very rainy. Still more dreadful was the
case of others:

There men myght se grete pytt^,

A chylde of ij yere or iij.

Go aboute to begge hyt brede.

Fadyr and modyr bothe were dede. *

Undyr sum the watyr stode ;

Yet lay they cryyng aftyr foode.

And sum storvyn unto the dethe,

And sum stoppyde of ther brethe,

Sum crokyd in the kneys,

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And sum alio so lene as any treys ;
And wemmen holdyn in hyr armys
Dede chyldryn in hyr barmys,
And the chyldryn sokyng in ther pappe
With yn a dede woman lappa, (p. 85.)

The conference was unsatb&ctory, as the demands of the English
greatly exceeded what was offered on behalf of the city; and at
thd end of a fortnight negociations were about to be broken off
(p. 36). The city deleejates, however, prayed that the truce might
be continued for one night; and the clamour of the citizens com-
pelled them again to treat (pp. 36-39). In four days more they
came to terms, and it was agreed that the city should be surrendered
in eight days if no rescue came in the interval (p. 40). On
Thursday the 19th January the keys of the city were delivered up
(p. 41), and the poem concludes with an account of the King's
entry into the city and the process of taking possession (pp. 42-45).

Of the three other MSS. of this poem above referred to not one
supplies a complete and satisfactory text. In the Bodleian MS. the
latter part is wanting; while, on the other hand, in the two
Harleian MSS. it is the latter part alone that has been preserved to
us in its original form. Both these MSS. are copies of the well-
known English chronicle called The Brute y which used to be
attributed to Gaxton, because printed by him in 1480, with a con-
tinuation to the accession of Edward IV. Neither the printed
copy nor almost any other MS. of the Chronicle contains this poem,
but in these two Harleian MSS., and also in a MS. mentioned by
Sir F. Madden as being then in the library of T. W. Coke, Esq. at
Holkham, the poem is incorporated in the narrative, the earlier
part of it being translated into prose, sometimes with very little
verbal alteration, while the latter part is preserved in its original
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As the text of the Bodleian and the two Harleian MSS. has
already been printed, I have not thought it necessary to note the
varieties of reading, except where the variations are material or
where the reading of another MS. seemed preferable to that of the
Egerton. In the footnotes I refer to the Bodleian MS. as 6., the
Egerton as £., the Harleian MS. 2256 as H., and the Harleian
MS. 753 as H 2.

The Verses on the Kings of England which follow occur in
several MSS. They are commonly, I doubt not justly, attributed
to Lydgate. A copy in Ashmole MS. 59 is in the handwriting of
Shirley, the transcriber of Chaucer, and'must have been written as
I am informed about 1456. The poem, however, was added to by
other hands after it was composed. A further stanza relating to
Edward IV. (which I have printed in a footnote at p. 54) is con-
tained in MS. Harl. 2251, a volume full of Lydgate's poetry. The
poem was printed in 1530 by Wynkyn de Worde with additions
continuing it to the reign of Henry VIII., but this tract is ex-
ceedingty rare. A copy occurs in the Public Library at Cambridge,
bound up along with Stephen Hawes's " Joyful Meditation on the
Coronation of Henry VIII."

As to the Chronicle, we have already seen that it was in all
probability partly written by William Gregory, who was Mayor of
London in 1451-52, the 30th year of Henry VI; but that his
authorship does not extend to the conclusion of the work, and
probably does not go beyond the year of his mayoralty. It seems
hardly necessary to add that the earlier part of the work is not
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familiarity with mediaeval chronicles know quite well how one
writer transcribed the works of others, only adding to them at the
end some original information of the facts of his own day. But
William Gregory, though not the only author of this Chronicle, is
the only one whose name is known to us; and the very little that
is known even about him may here be briefly stated.

He was the son of Roger Gregory of Mildenhall in Suffolk, and
though I find nothing else about his family it appears that he was
entitled to bear arms, which are described as : *' Party per pale, argent
and azure, two lions rampant guardant endorsed, counterchanged."
Of the date of his birth there is no precise evidence; but as he was
a widower, who had been three times married and had at least
eleven grandchildren when he made his will in 1465, fourteen
months before his death, it could hardly have been later than about
the year 1410, Indeed we may with great probability carry it still
further back and suppose him to have been born before the close of
the fourteenth century. He was, as we have already mentioned, a
member of the Skinners' Company; but at what date he became so
we have no means of knowing, as the records of that Company do
not extend so far back. He served the office of sheriff in 1436 and
was elected mayor in 1451. At the time he made his will he was
living in the parish of St. Mary Aldermary, where he directs that
he should be buried; but if Stowe be correct he was actually
buried in the church of St. Anne Aldersgate. In that church,
too, according to Stowe, he founded a chantry, and there are MSS.
at the Guildhall which say that he endowed this chantry with
19/. 17«. 4d. per annum out of all his lands* No monument of
him, however, existed in the church even in Stowe's day,* and
among the many benefactions in his will the name of St. Anne's
church Aldersgate is not even once mentioned. To the church of

■ Stowe*8 Survey, iii. 102.
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St. Mary Aldermary there is a bequest of 16Z. 13«. 4e2. in aid of
the ** church work," that the parishioners might pray for his soul;
and there is another to Master Du£feld, '^ one of the chauntry priests
of Aldermary church aforesaid," for the like purpose.

At the time he made his will he had two married daughters, of
whom one named Margaret was the wife of John Croke, and had
a family of five sons and two daughters. The second, Cecily, was
the wife of Robert Mildenhall, and had two daughters. The will
also mentions a William Gregory, who is perhaps a son of the
testator^ but is not so designated, who has a wife Mary and a son
and daughter.

For other points of interest we must refer the reader to the will
itself, which is very curious in many ways. The very large
bequests for the good of the testator's soul, the charitable legacies
to the poor in hospital and elsewhere, the sums left for the relief of
prisoners and for the repair " of the foulest ways about London,"
may create some little surprise that greater provision is not made
for the testator's own relations. But they were probably in good
circumstances and did not need his generosity; for he makes his
son-in-law John Croke his executor, which certainly implies that
there was no coolness between them, and the way in which he
provides for servants and dependents forbids us to suppose that he
was insensible to any natural claim upon him.

The Chronicle is one of those city chronicles of which we have
several examples, the best known being that of Sobert Fabyan.
Events, sometimes only of civic importance, and sometimes such as
affected the whole kingdom, are in these compositions recorded in
the form of annals, the names of the mayor and sheriffs of London
in each year being prefixed to the record of that year. The
Chronicle of London, printed by Sir Harris Nicolas in 1827,
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at the same date, the first year of Richard I., and are evidently
derived from a common source down to the time of Richard 11.
There are, however, considerable variations, our Chronicle being
l^ss full in some places and more in others; but the Chronicle
printed by Nicolas is itself derived firom two different MSS., which
exhibit some variations among themselves; and in the account of
the last years of Richard II. one of these (the Cottonian MS. Julius
B L which I have referred to in footnotes as J.) corresponds much
more closely with our Chronicle than the other (Harleian, No. 565,
which I have referred to as B..) Another city chronicle which
corresponds still more closely with ours is contained in the Cottonian
MS. Vitellius A. xvi., which I have cited in footnotes occasionally
as V« It is evidently derived from a common source until the
19th year of Henry VI., after which the text is a good deal like
that of Fabyan.

The variations between these different MSS. are occasionally
/ instructive. We can see in some cases how facts were exaggerated,

not only in the telling but even in the transcription, as time went
on. Thus in the fifth year of Edward III. our Chronicle mentions
the defeat of 40,000 Scots by a handful of 2,000 Englishmen; but
in the Chronicle of London printed by Nicolas from MSS. H. and
J. the number of the Scots is given at 12,000 only.

In the present Chronicle, as also in J. and V., a number of
capitulations for the surrender of places in France during the wars
of Henry V. and at the beginning of Henry VI.'s reign have been
inserted in the narrative. In these the transcriber's errors are so
numerous and so gross in our MS., that it would have been utterly
impossible in very many places even to conjecture the true reading
of the text if there had been no better transcript. But as the
original treaties are enrolled in the Norman Rolb, and have for the
most part been printed by Rymer from that source, I have been able

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to give the right readings in the text, pointing out the extraordinary
blunders of the MS. in footnotes. As examples of unintelligent and
inaccurate copying they would certainly be very hard to match.

It is in all probability from the nineteenth year of Henry VI.
that William Gregory's part in the Chronicle begins. At that date,
as we have already said, the similar chronicle in the Vitellius MS.
begins to differ from ours, and to follow a source to which Fabyan
is largely indebted. It is probable, I think, that the whole of the
preceding part in which the Vitellius MS. and ours correspond, was
derived from an older chronicle, which terminated in the eighteenth
year, and that from the nineteenth year to the thirtieth William
Gregory took up the pen and made a continuation. We cannot
say much for it as an example of literary art or style in composition;
nor is there much that he records that is even of great importance
from its novelty until we reach the twenty-eighth year. But his
account of Cade's rebellion in that year is certainly of no small
value.

Our author agrees with Fabyan in saying that the leader in this
rising was originally chosen by the people; but, being so chosen,
he adds that this captain '^ compassed all the gentles to arise with
him." The people in some part of Kent had found a leader for
themselves; and he proved to be a man of such remarkable energy
and tact that he soon got all the country gentlemen of Kent to go
along with him. They formed a regular encampment on Black-
heath, or, in the words of our authority, " made a field dyked and
staked well about, as it had been in the land of war." This showed
real military capacity, "save only they kept [no?] order amongst
them (for as good was Jack Robyn as John at the Noke, for all
were as high as pig's feet) unto the time that they should commun
and speak with such states and messengers that were sent unto
them : then they put all their power unto the man that named him

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captain of all their host." This remark seems to make the move-
ment a degree more intelligible. The man chosen as leader —
whatever may have been then known about him — possessed little
or no influence with the squires and yeomen, who only wished to
combine with their fellow countrymen in setting forth their
grievances to the King. But when the time for joint action came
his power and skill as a military leader was so manifest that all
readily submitted to him. Yet even this submission might only
have been momentary, for the multitude seems to have had no
intention of taking the offensive. When the King, after sending to
know^the cause of the rising, was answered by the captain that it
was " to destroy traitors being about him, with other divers points,"
another message was immediately sent by the King and his lords,
and proclamation was everjrwhere made, that loyal men should
immediately quit the field. "And upon the night after," says our
chronicler, ** they were all voided and a-go."

The insurrection, seemingly, was almost at an end. The King
rode armed through London at the head of his lords, who mustered
their followers at Clerkenwell to the number of 10,000 men. Un-
happily a small body, detached from this force, went in pursuit of
the captain under Sir Humphrey and William Stafford. They
were defeated at Sevenoaks, and their leaders slain. The King and
nis lords were seized with a panic. They separated and withdrew
into the country, leaving London open to the insurgents, who
entered the city on the 3rd July. Here, according to our chronicler,
and also two days before at Blackheath, although they professed to
be under the same captain as before, they really had a new one who
went by the same name. This is quite a novel piece of information,
and whether true or not is exceedingly curious as bearing upon the
history of the movement. Evidently, the original leader was not
well-known, and the facts were not well-known. Apparently it

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was conceived by some that the first captain had been killed at
Sevenoaks, and that the fact had been concealed, another man being
artfully put in his place. If so^ then, a further question arises
whether the name Mortimer assumed by Cade was not the real
name of the first leader in the movement. It is quite clear that
Cade*s assumption of that name passed unchallenged till after the
rebellion was over, for under the name of Mortimer he actually
received a pardon, which was invalidated when it was found he had
no right to it.* The only circumstance which renders improbable
this substitution of one captain for another is the total absence of
corroborative testimony to the fact. But this, it must be owned,
throws serious doubt upon it.^

There is little else deserving of special comment in the portion of
the chronicle which we believe to have been written by Gregory.
But as being, to all appearance, a strictly contemporary record of
the times, it will undoubtedly merit the careful attention of future
historians in other matters besides those we have pointed out
Immediately after the year of Gregory's mayoralty appear those
evidences to which we have already alluded of a later hand having
continued the record of events some years after the events were
passed. The mayor and sheriffs for the thirty-second year of
Henry YI. are omitted, and the later years of the reign are each
made a year too early.*' The first battle of St. Albans, the battle
of Bloreheath, and the encampment of the Yorkists at Ludlow in

*■ I hare already pointed this out in another publication (Faston Letters, toI. i.
Introduction, p. Iv.), qaoting as mj authority a MS. in the Lambeth Library, which
I hope shortly to edit for the Camden Society.

^ The story of Jack Cade, however, is attended with difficulties from any point of
yiew, and it is remarkable that when Cade's body was brought to London it was
taken to the White Hart at Southwark, where he had lodged before hb entry into the
City, and identified by the woman who kept the house (p. 194). We hear nothing of
its being identified by anyone who had seen the leader before the battle of Sevenoaks.

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1459, are all, owing to this cause, misdated. Moreover, a matter of
no less consequence than the first illness of Henry VI. at Clarendon
in 1453 is only mentioned retrospectively after the battle of St.
Albans in 1455. It is dear that during the remainder of Henry
VI/s reign, or at least till the last year of it, the continuator does
not chronicle the facts so immediately after their occurrence as
Gregory did before he was mayor.

The great events of the period, too, are but slightly mentioned
for the most part, and a good deal of space is devoted to occurrences
of no great political interest. In the thirty-third (which ought to
be the thirty-fourth) year the principal subject of the narrative is .
an extraordinary and very barbarous case of single combat between
two men, one of whom had accused the other falsely, the conditions
of the fight— degrading as they were — ^being apparently prescribed
by some old law or custom applicable to such cases.

In the thirty- fifth (thirty-sixth) year an incident is recorded
showing the high importance attached to the pulpit in those days.
During Lent, the Court being then at Coventry, an order was made
that no preacher, however highly qualified, should preach before
the King without first showing his sermon to an official, whom the
author does not name, but indicates by the letters A. B. C. Political
allusions in sermons seem to have been much more common than
agreeable to royalty, and A. B. C. instructed each preacher what
passages he should leave out on pain of going as he came, without
meat, drink, or reward. But a certain Master WiUiam Ive, bachelor
of Divinity, came up from Wykeham's College at Winchester to
preach before the King, and, aft;er showing his sermon to the official,
not only disobeyed the instruction to omit certain passages, but
declared from the pulpit before the King that it was A. B. C. who
had made the sermons previously preached before him, and not the
preachers themselves; for they, he said, had allowed their purpose
to be turned upside down, and ** had made lovedays as Judas made

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with a kiss with Christ." Ive's reward for this boldness was simply
a thankless ride of 160 miles — to Court and back again.<^

The account of the battle of Bloreheath,^ besides being out of
place, is a little confused, so that it would be hard to understand
from the writer's slipshod grammar, if we had no other authority
to go by, that it was a Yorkist victory at all. Nor is the story
quite consistent with that contained in other sources, for it is said
the battle lasted from one till five in the afternoon, whereas
according to Hall it began early in the morning. The disparity
in numbers between the two parties was, moreover, extreme; for
. Salisbury had but 500 men against 6,000 on the Queen's side, *' a
great wonder," says our author, " that ever they (Salisbury's force)
might stand the great multitude not fearing, the King being within
ten miles and the Queen -within five miles at the Castle of Eccles-
hall " It is not safe of course to rely on the strict accuracy of these
numbers, which differ considerably from those in other authorities,
but it is hard to say what authority is more trustworthy. According
to the Act of Attainder against the Yorkists (which, however, in
all probability magnified their numbers to mitigate the disgrace of
a Lancastrian defeat) the Earl had 5,000 men with him. This
estimate is even exceeded in the English Chronicle edited by Mr.
Davies for the Camden Society in 1856, where it is said that he had
7,000 well arrayed men. On the other hand Lord Audeley's force
is stated by Hall to have amounted to 10,000, and the number of
the slain to 2,400. Under any circumstances it seems clear that
Salisbury fought obstinately against great odds, and though victorious
just saved himself firom being surrounded. Indeed, our author

* Page 203. The Continnator was probably a personal friend of this William
Ire, whom he mentions again shortly afterwards with praise for the part he took in
a controrersy with the Friars. As Ive belonged to Wykeham^s College at Winchester,
and other matters of local interest are mentioned in this part of the Chronicle, I am
inclined to think the Continnator mnst hare been a Hampshire man,

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says that he would have been taken if after the day waa over an
Austin friar had not kept firing guns all night to cover his retreat.

Again we have a totally new piece of information on page 207, as
to the intoxication and want of discipline that prevailed among
the King's forces after the Yorkists had dispersed at Ludlow.

At pp. 208-210 likewise is a hitherto unknown account of Queen
Margaret's adventures after the battle of Northampton; how she was
robbed by a servant of her own in whom she had placed confidence, —
how she at last reached Harlech Castle in Wales with no more than
four attendants, — how, after being relieved and comforted there, she
removed privily for fear of capture and joined the Earl of Pem-
broke, — and how she was in continual danger of being betrayed by
counterfeit tokens sent to her as if they had come from the King
her husband. But the messengers who brought those tokens, being
of the King's or the Prince's household, and sometimes of her own,
gave her warning not to trust to any but a special token agreed to
privately between herself and the King just before the battle of
Northampton. Margaret accordingly stood on her guard, and,
sending messages to the Duke of Somerset and others, arranged to
meet with her supporters at Hull, which was planned with so great
secrecy that 15,000 men were assembled before the Yorkists had
taken the alarm. When the news came to London the Duke of York
himself set out to meet them. The result was the battle of Wake-
field. All this has been hitherto quite unknown.

Our author also mentions a battle or skirmish that took place at
Dunstable^ the day before the second battle of St. Albans, re-
garding which other authorities are silent, except that there is a
slight allusion to it in William Worcester, who says that Edward
Poynings (he probably means Robert) and 200 foot were slain
there. But, according to the Chronicle before us, the action seems

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to have been of an insignificant character. A few raw levies
raised in the King's name to oppose Queen Margaret and her
northern army were commanded by a butcher of Dunstable, and
were, as might be expected, easily discomfited; on which, as our
chronicler was informed, the butcher hung himself, either for shame
at the loss of his men or for the loss of his goods. The incident,
however^ is curious as an illustration of what other writers tell us
about the general fear of outrage and plunder that prevailed ii\ the
south on the approach of Margaret and her northern forces.*

Of the second battle of St. Albans itself we have also some new
particulars. The King's army, or in other words the Yorkists,
who at this time had the King in their keeping, had already pitched
their camp and fortified it, awaiting the Queen's coruing, when,
hearing that she was still nine miles o£F, they unfortunately gave up
their position and occupied a new one. They were well prepared
with artillery and apparatus — engines that would discharge both
pellets of lead and arrows an ell long, with six feathers, ** with a
great mighty head of iron on the other end," or cast wildfire among
the enemy. They had also nets, and pavyses or large shields with
apertures to shoot through, and other curious contrivances interesting
to the military antiquary. But before guns and engines could be
got into working order the Queen's army had come to close quarters
and they were busy fighting. Thoy thus laboured under disadvan-
tages from the very beginning; although Whethamstede intimates
that they would have won the battle had their endurance equalled
their valour at the outset.**

There is comparatively little new information about the battle of
Towton and the beginning of Edward IV. 's reign. But in the
third year there is a very striking account of the easy confidence

* Hairs Chronicle. Whethamstede. Rolls of Parliament, y. 476.
•> Pages 212—314. Whethamstede, 1. 391. (Rolls ed.)

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with which Edward received the Duke of Somerset into favour after
he had surrendered and sworn allegiance to him at Durham. ** The
King/^ we are told, ** made full much of him ; insomuch that he lodged
with the King in his own bed many nights, and sometimes rode
a-hunting behind the King, the King having about him not passing
six horse at the most, and yet three were the Duke's men of
Somerset. The King loved him well, but the Duke thought treason
under &ir cheer and words, as it appeared. And for a great love
the King made a great justs at Westminster, that he should see
some manner sport of chivalry after his great labour and heaviness.
And with great instance the King made him to take harness upon
him, and rode in the place, but he would never cope with no man,
and no man might not cope with him, till the King prayed him to
be merry and sent him a token, and then he ran full justly and
merrily, and his helm was a sorry hat of straw. And then every
man marked him well." *

The King afterwards going into the north, ** to understand the
disposition of the people," took the Duke of Somerset with him
and 200 of his men, " well horsed and harnessed," as a royal body
guard. It was like putting a lamb into the guard of wolves, our
author thinks, *^but Almighty God was the shepherd." The
people of Northampton were indignant at the favour shown to a
traitor, and would have slain him, but that the King sent him away
secretly to a castle of his own for surety, and sent his men to New-
castle to keep the town, their wages fully paid.^ Somerset repaid
his benefactor next year by coming secretly out of Wales and
endeavouring to betray Newcastle into the hands of Henry VI.
The King, however, appointed Lord Scrope of Bolton to keep the
town, and the Duke did not succeed. He was taken and beheaded,
as is well known, after the battle of Hexham ; but it has not been
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known till now how deep was the perfidy thus deservedly punished.
The Scots who had been the chief occasion of trouble (especially as
France had made a truce with England some months previously ^ )
had made overtures for peace about Easter 14649 and Commissioners
had been appointed on the part of both kingdoms, who were to
meet at York. Warwick's brother, Lord Montague, as Warden of
the Marches, was commissioned to conduct the Scotch Commissioners
from the Borders. But while riding northwards for this purpose
the Duke of Somerset lay in wait for him near Newcastle, accom-
panied by the equally treacherous Sir Balph Percy ^ and Sir Hum-
phrey NeviU. Montague, however, who had fortunately received
timely warning, took another way to Newcastle, and proceeded
to Norharo, when Somerset again endeavoured to intercept him
accompanied by Lord Hungerford and all the principal Lancastrians.
They were however thoroughly defeated at Hedgley Moor, and
Montague accomplished his mission. The Scottish and English
Commissioners met and a fifteen years* peace was concluded. ^' An
the Scots be true," adds our Chronicler, showing by the remark

« Proclamation was made on the 27th Oct 1463, of a truce with France till
Ist Oct. 1464. (aose RoUb).

» Sir Ralph Percy swore allegiance to Edward at the same time as Somerset, and
they agreed to deliver np Bamborongh and Dnnstanborong^ Castles on -condition
that Percj should hare the keeping of them. He abused his trust, and let the
French gain possession of Bamborongh (pp. 219, 220.) Sir Balph Grey, also, who
was made Constable of Alnwick, under the gallant Sir John Ashlej, betrayed his
Captain to the enemy (p. 220), a deed for which he was afterwards condemned to
death and beheaded, his spurs being first struck ofi by the hand of the Master Cook.
(MS. in Heralds* CJollege, quoted in Notes to Warkworth's Chronicle, p. 39). Yet
through all this treachery there seems to hare been, with some at least, a strange
perverted notion of honour. Perey was slain at Hedgley Moor, where he refused to
fly as others did, exclaiming as it is said, "I have saved the bird in my bosom.'*
By this he meant that he had preserved his loyalty to Heniy YL, forgetting that he
had actually sworn allegiance to Edward lY. The place where he fell is called
Percy's Cross to this day, and is marked by an octagonal pillar. (Holinshed, ilL
666. Pennant's Tour in Scotland, iii. 288.)

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that he writes while the treaty was still a subject of conversation —
" An the Scots be true it must needs continue so long; but it is
hard for to trust unto them, for they be ever found fiiU of guile and
deceit." »

Then follows a notice of the battle of Hexham, and a list of the
Lancastrians who were beheaded by Montague's orders after the
battle, both at Hexham and at Newcastle, Middleham, and York.
Immediately afterwards occurred the capture of Sir William Tail-
boys in a coalpit near Newcastle ^ with 3,o6o marks in money which
he was endeavouring to convey to Henry VI.® This also is quite
a new piece of information. Tailboys, from all that we know of
his former life, seems to have been a very unscrupulous partizan of
the Duke of Suffolk in the times before Jack Cade's rebellion. On
one occasion he had attempted to murder Lord Cromwell, one of
the King's councillors, even at the door of the Star Chamber, and
Suffolk was accused of protecting him un&irly against certain writs
of appeal brought by various widows for the death of their hus-
bands.*

The romantic marriage of Edward IV. is next related; but here
our author adds little to what we already know except as to the
circumstances of its avowal. He is ill-informed indeed as to the
exact time when it was first made known, which he says was on
All Hallows' day (1 November), whereas William Worcester says
it was on Michaelmas day (29 Septenxber); and there is evidence
to show that William Worcester is right® There can be no doubt,
however, that the circumstances of the disclosure were as stated in
our Chronicle. The marriage, in fact, could no longer be con-

* Pages 223-4.

<" The Tear Book in Easter, 4 £dw. IV. says that Tailboys (there called the Earl
of Kyme) was taken in Riddesdale.
« Page 226. ' Bolls of Parliament, t. 181, 200.

* See Lord Wenlock*s letter on the subject, dated Reading, 3rd Oct. 1464, in
Wavrin (Dupont's ed.), ii. 326-7.

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cealed, for the council was assembled with the King at Beading,
where ** the lords moved him in God's name to be wedded and to
live under the law of God and Church, and they would send into
some strange land to inquire a Queen of good birth according to
his dignity. And then our sovereign might no loiiger hide his
marriage." In fact, as we know very well from other sources,
Edward's marriage with Bona of Savoy had been mooted for some
time before, and the Earl, although he did not actually go, had
been expected in France, where he was to have been sent to
negociate it.*

Edward^s marriage took place secretly at Grafton in Northamp-
tonshire on the 1st May, 1464. He had left London not long
before, and it may be presumed with a retinue capable of doing
him some service in war; for it had been his intention soon after
Easter to go and besiege Bamborough, which was again in Henry
YI.'s possession along with Dunstanborough and Alnwick by the
treachery of Sir Ralph Percy and Sir Ralph Grey.** He reached
Stony Stratford on the 30th April, and meanwhile, on the 25th,
in the furthest comer of Northumberland, Montague had over-
thrown his enemies for him at Hedgley Moor. The work had still
to be completed by the battle of Hexham on the 14th May; but
Edward had probably heard that the Lancastrians had received
a decisive overthrow by the time that he stole off from Stony
Stratford early in the morning of May day. got married, and
returned. Surely never before or since did a King get married
under similar circumstances !

Meanwhile Warwick and his brother Montague, all unconscious
of what Edward was about (else their zeal in his service would have
cooled, as it did some time afterwards), were busy completing the

* See two yalaable notes in Kirk's " Charles the Bold/' i. 415, and ii. 15.)
^ See a paper printed in Wayrin, iii, 183.

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overthrow of the Lancastrians. After the battle of Hexham they
besieged successfully the three Northern castles. Alnwick first
surrendered and then Dunstanborough.^ But Bamborough held
out till July, and was only won by assault with artillery.'* It was
kept by the traitor Sir Ralph Grey, who doubtless knew that he had
no mercy to expect. He was taken and brought prisoner to the
King at Pomfret, from which place he was conveyed to Doncaster,
'' and there his head was smit off and sent to London, and it was
set upon London Bridge." ^

It was just after this that^ to meet his heavy expenses^ Edward
enhanced the value of the old coinage and issued new coins of
inferior gold containing more alloy. New groats of silver were
also issued and ordered to pass current at fourpence; but they^ too,
were of inferior metal to the old groats. The result was what
must inevitably have taken place according to the ill-imderstood
laws of political economy. People did not like to receive the new
coinage. The new angels and nobles of gold were difficult to pass,
and a man might go through a whole street or parish before he
could get them changed. Silver too rose in price to three shillings
an ounce or more. Moreover at the beginning of the change
'' men grudged passing sore, for they could not reckon that gold so
quickly as they did the old gold." *

* Alnwick surrendered at once on the 23rd June as soon as Warwick came before
it. Dnnstanboroogh probably surrendered also the flame day, as Warwick ** kept
the feast of St. John the Baptist ** (24th June) there. See MS. in Heralds' College,
quoted in Notes to Warkworth's Chronicle, p. 37.

^ Fabyan.

' Page 227. Grey's degradation from knighthood, mentioned in a preyious
note, took place, according to the Year Book, << derant mnlts del people le Roy
8. ses gilt spores hewes de ses pees, et son espee et tout son armour sur Iny debmse
et pris de Iny en le champe, et puis il decolL'* This punishment was inflicted on
him about (enter) St. Benet's day (11th July) on account of "son perjury et
donbleness que il aroit fait al Boy Henry le Size jadis Roy, kc, et auxy al Roy
Edward le Quart que ore est." ^ Page 227.

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Then came the coronation of Edward's Queen; on which occasion
among a number of other gentlemen five aldermen of London were
made knights, whose names are given. '^ It is a great worship
unto all the city*' remarks our chronicler.*

What is said of the capture of Henry VI. in Lancashire is
interesting, and helps, perhaps, to supply a missing link in the
story of the unhappy King's adventures. Many historians have
written as if he had been taken soon after the battle of Hexham;
but it is now well known that the date of his capture was about a
year later, and it has been supposed that he lay concealed in the
North of England. If, however, our author was well informed he
had again found a refuge in Scotland, for it was in coming out of
Scotland that he was discovered at Fumess Fells in Lancashira^

The security given to Edward's throne by the capture of
Henry VI. was reflected in the honour paid him by foreign princes.
In the seventh year of his reign he received embassies from France,
Spain, Scotland, Burgundy, Brittany, the King of Naples, and the
court of Ferrara; while there also came from the Pope a legate,
and from the Emperor the patriarch of Antioch. The papal legate
is not mentioned either in Baronius or in Fabyan's Chronicle, and
who he was we are not told, though his coming must have excited
no small interest at the time. It seems that he was a good scholar
— '* the best Latin man that came into England many years; " that

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^ Warkworth says he was taken ** bysyde a bowse of religione in Lancashire . .
... in a wode called Cletberwode beside Bnngerlj HyppTngstones." This last-
named locality is explained by the late Mr. Nichols to hare been a ford with step-
ping-stones across the Riyer Bibble. Henry, howerer, elnded his ci^tors (at least
so I understand Warkworth to imply) and was afterwards retaken, being surprised
at dinner at Waddington Hall, in Yorkshire, not many miles off. All this is quite
consistent with his haying been first recognised in Fumess Fells, from which district
he might have been pursued to the neighbourhood of Clitheroe. If it be true that
he took refuge at Bracewell and Bolton as well as at Waddington (see Mr. Nichols's
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he was lodged '* at a great place of a Lombard's " at St Bartholo-
mew's the Less, where he kept a good household, his men being
very orderly; but that he declined to accept the hospitality of any
of the English nobility, except that on one occasion afler great
entreaty he became the guest of the Archbishop of York at the
More in Hertfordshire. The cause of his coming no man could
learn with any certainty. It may have been due simply to the
Pope's anxiety to understand the state of parties in England.*

In the eighth year, our author writes, *' were many men appeached
of treason both of the city and of other towns. Of the city, Thomas
Coke, knight and alderman, and John Plummer, knight and alder-
man, but the King gave them both pardon. And a man of the
Lord Wenlock's, John Hawkins was his name, was hanged at
Tyburn and beheaded for treason." The circumstances here so
slightly alluded to are more perfectly known from other sources,
but have never yet been fully recounted. Lancastrian plots were
certainly thickening against King Edward, who though easily
lulled into false security became fitfully cruel and tyrannical when
impressed with a sense of danger. More than one messenger was
intercepted with letters to oi* from Queen Margaret,^ and many
whose loyalty had been hitherto unsuspected were implicated in
charges of treason. Among these was Lord Wenlock's servant,
Hawkins, who accused not only Sir Thomas Coke but also hb own
master; and as we know that Lord Wenlock afterwards joined the
Earl of Warwick against Edward there was probably more founda-
tion for the latter accusation than the former. As to Sir Thomas
Coke, Hawkins had but asked him for a loan of 1 ,000 marks, which
he refused to give, finding that the money was intended for the use
of Margaret of Anjou. He was, however, arrested on the accusa-
tion of Hawkins; but at the request of the Lady Margaret, the King's

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sieter, he was admitted to baiL After that Princess's departure
beyond sea he was again arrested and sent to the Tower, his goods
were seized by Lord Rivers, Treasurer of England, and his wife
placed in the custody of the Mayor of London. After lying some
time in the Tower he was tried at Guildhall and acquitted^ his
offence being found to be mere misprision in the concealment of an
application made to him by Edward's enemies.* Nevertheless he
was transferred to the Bread Street Counter and afterwards to the
King's Bench Prison, in Southwark, from which he was only released
on payment of a fine to the King of 8,000Z. But even so he was
not quite out of his trouble, for a new demand was made upon him
by virtue of an old abuse, called Aurum Regince, that for every
1,OOOZ. he had paid the King he should give the Queen 1,000
marks besides. With this, too, he was obliged to comply, and he
suffered no further inconvenience; but he found on going back to
his country house in Essex that both house and park had been
plundered of everything valuable by the servants of Lord Rivers
and the under treasurer Sir John Fogge, for which it was in vain
to expect any compensation.^

The cruelty and injustice of these proceedings require no com-
ment. But when it is considered that they were directed against
an innocent man, whom the law officers of the Crown had used
every effort to convict, even by means the most unjustifiable, — when
it is considered also that Chief Justice Markham for having
directed Coke's acquittal was actually deprived of his office,*' we
have a picture of tyranny and injustice rarely equalled in the
history of this country. It is difficult even to imagine the poor
excuse that the court seriously suspected that there had been a mis-
carriage of justice, for Sir Thomas was exonerated firom the charge

* W. Wyrc., 515.

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by his accuser himself in a manner that should have left no doubt
of his innocence. The case was alluded to a few years afterwards
by Fortescue in his treatise on the Laws of England, addressed to
the son of Henry VI. in the following manner :

Do you not remember, my Prince, a criminal, who, when upon the
rack, impeached of treason a certain noble knight, a man of worth and
loyaliy, and declared that they were both concerned together in the same
conspiracy; and being taken down from the rack he still persisted in
the accusation, lest he should again be put to the question ? Neverthe-
less, being so much hurt and reduced by the severity of the punishment
that he was brought almost to the point of death, after he had the
viaticum and sacraments administered to him, he then confessed, and
took a yery solemn oath upon it by the body of Christ, and as he was
now, as he imagined, just going to expire, he affirmed that the said
worthy knight was innocent and clear of everything he had laid to his
charge. He added that the tortures he was put to were so intolerable,
that, rather than suffer them over again, he would accuse the same
person of the same crimes, — nay, his own father, — though when he said
this he was in the bitterness of death, when all hopes of recovery were
over. Neither did he at last escape that igpiominious death, for he was
hanged; and at the time and place of his execution he acquitted the .
said knight of the crimes wherewith he had, not long before, charged him.*

* Fortescue de Landibtis Legnm Angliie, ed. Amos, p. 71. Although Fortescae
does not mention the name either of the knight or of the criminal there con hardly
be much doubt that this was the case referred to. In fact, as an acute critic pointed
out in the last century (see Biog. Brit., art. *' Fortescue," p. 1992, footnote), a
case so alluded to must have been notorious, and the circumstances as related in
Fabyan's Chronicle exactly correspond with the way in which Fortescue speaks of
them. The notoriety of the case is further shown by the reference made to it in the
speech of the Duke of Buckingham before the accession of Richard III. : " What
need I to speak of Sir Thomas Cooke, alderman and mayor of this noble city ?
Who is of you, either of negligence that wotteth not, or so forgetful that ho remem-
breth not, or so hardhearted that he pitieth not, that worshipful man*s loss, — what
speak I of loss?— his wonderful spoil and undeserved destruction,— only because it
happened him to favour them, whom the prince favoured not? ** (HaU's Chronicle,
p. 369.) Mr. Orridge has quoted this passage from Holinshed in his notices of
Mi^pas and Cooke in connection with Cade's Rebellion.

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It is scarcely necessary to point out every touch of new light in
matters which are already well known, such as the Princess
Margaret's marriage to Charles of Burgundy, and the hiding of
Jasper Earl of Pembroke in Wales. But the misconduct of some
gentlemen in the Princess's suite in Flanders, and a disturbance
which they created at Southwark after their return, from the ill
will they bore to the Flemings, are facts which have been hitherto
unknown. The luxury of the court of Charles the Bold seems to
have destroyed the discipline of the English, while at the same the
Burgundian court found it necessary to put some limit to its
expensive hospitality. After a certain day the English were told
that every man should live at the expense of his own master.
Prices rose and accommodation was scanty, from the great con-
course of people. The Chronicler himself seems to have been
among those who went over with the Princess, for he writes as if
from personal experience: " Meat and drink was dear enough, as
though it had been in the land of war, for a shoulder of mutton was
sold for I2d. ; and as for bedding, Lyard my horse had more ease
than had some good yeomen ; for my horse stood in the house and
the yeomen sometimes lay without in the street, for less than 4^. a
roan should not have a bed a night. Lo, how soon they could play
the niggards I " •

A pretty considerable amount of feeling seems to be embodied
in that last remark.

The narrative comes to a close (or perhaps is abruptly terminated
by the loss of a leaf or two) in the middle of the ninth year of
Edward lY., so that there is nothing more of political interest to
claim the reader's attention. But it is right to say a few words on
some subjects of minor interest which we thought it right to pass
by at the time in order to avoid interruption. Every one interested
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in civic history will be grateful to our chronicler for the account of
the blunder committed at the Serjeants' feast in 1464^ where the
Earl of Worcester was given precedence over the Mayor of London,
and of the way in which the mayor vindicated his own dignity and
ihe honour of the city by at once retiring with " the substance of his
brethem the aldermen *' to his own place, where he had a banquet
''set and served all so soon as any man could devise, both of cygnet
and of other delicates enow, that all the house marvelled how well
all thing was done in so short a time." The officers of the feast,
deeply ashamed of the mishap, tried to make amends in a fiushion
not uncommon in those days, by sending to the mayor a present of
" meat, bread, wine, and many divers subtleties," intended to form
a banquet in itself. But when the messengers arrived they found
quite as sumptuous a banquet actually laid upon the table, and the
person who was to have made the presentation felt ashamed of the
task imposed upon him. 'He, however, acquitted himself gracefully,
and was dismissed with a reward. So ** the worship of the city,"
as our chronicler proudly remarks, ^' was kept and not lost for him.
And I trust that never it shall, by the grace of Grod." •

To the religious history of the times we have some interesting
contributions. The first is an incident referred to by Foxe the
Martyrologist, in his '* Acts and Monuments," who seems to have
derived his information &om this Chronicle. In 1465 the chronic
rivalry between the religious orders and the priesthood broke out
into violent disputations and schism. . A Carmelite friar of London,
by name Sir Harry Parker, son of a skinner in Fleet Street, preached
at Paul's Cross on the old, well-worn theme of an endowed clergy.
It was an old well-worn theme even then, though it has lasted so
long that it does not seem to be exhausted even in our own days ;
but Parker, whatever may be said of his taste and judgment, con-

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trived to invest it with some novelty of treatment He attacked a
beneficed clergy as a great abuse, and declared it was wrong for
priests to have any temporal livelihood at all, implying that
ministers of religion ought to live, like friars, entirely on the alms
of the people. .In confirmation of this view, he maintained that
not one of the Twelve Apostles nor Christ himself had any private
property whatever, but all things in common ; and he further went
so far as to say that our Lord was a beggar, and had nothing but
what was given him in alms.

Such a reflection delivered from the most famous of London
pulpits shocked and staggered people not a little. But on the
following Sunday Dr. William Ive, the Master of Whittington's
College, replied to the fiiar, " and proved that Christ was poor and
kept no great treasure^ but as for begging he utterly denied it^ and
by Holy Scripture proved it so that men understood the friar erred
sore against Holy Church." The friars, on the other hand, were
eager to defend the doctrine, and set up Dr. Thomas Halden to
answer Dr. Ive. He again was replied to on the following Sunday
by Dr. Storey, parson of All Hallows the More, who three years
later was made Bishop of Carlisle. Storey seems to have been
moderate in his tone, as one who was anxious to pacify the contro-
versy ; but the friars set up bills on every church door impugning what
he said, and their provincial. Dr. John Milverton, attacked the
beneficed clergy more bitterly than his subordinates had done
before. The dispute caused also divisions among the laity, some of
whom were offended at the friars and withdrew their alms from
them, while others refused the customary offerings to their curates,
saying that they had no right tu anything except mere alms.

The question was discussed in many places. Dr. Ive lectured
upon it at the Cathedral School of St. Paul's, of which he was
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sclyes, a great disputation was held between Dr. Halden and a grey
fidar at the White Friars in Fleet Street. But the grey friar went
80 far that he was cited by Dr. Alcock, Commissary to the Dean of
St. Martin's-le-Grand, to appear before the Archbishop of Canterbury
at Lambeth. The friar refused to obey the citation, as his order
were exempt from episcopal jurisdiction except in cases of heresy.
But the commissary cited him for heresy, and the whole order in vain
endeayoured to assert their privileges. Dr. Halden and the provincial
were cited but refused to appear, and were excommunicated for contu-
macy, and the young friar, Harry Parker, who began the controversy,
was then committed to prison, but revoked what he had said and
abjured the heresy. Yet even his recantation did not prevent others
from doing as he had done ; for a black friar soon after preached nearly
the same doctrine over again, and was compelled to recant in the same
manner. Meanwhile the excommunicated provincial had gone to
Home, and some expected still that he would come back in triumph;
for he had got a friar at Rome to write a treatise on the Begging of
Christ, copies of which were multiplied and sold in many places.
But when the matter was brought under the Pope's cognisance, the
whole process being sent to him from England, he altogether con-
firmed what was done, found the provincial guilty in nine more
points of heresy, and locked him fast in the Castle of St. Angelo.*

In the seventh year we have an account of the burning of a
relapsed heretic named William Barlow, who with his wife had
before abjured his errors. It is singular that this man's case has
quite escaped the notice of Foxe, although, as we have already
remarked, the Martyrologist seems to have been indebted to our
Chronicle for information on another subject. Barlow denied
Transubstantiation and the authority of priests to hear confession.
For his reply to Master Hugh Damelet, parson of St. Peter's, Com-

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hill, who attempted to reconvert him at the stake, we must be
content to refer the reader to the Chronicle itself.*

About the same time we are told that many of the London
churches were robbed of the boxes containing the Sacrament ; but
this was not, as was at first supposed/ the doing of a company of
heretics. It was simply a set of men who had turned thieves from
extreme poverty, and who mistook copper boxes for silver gilt.
They made a full confession before execution and died penitent.
But the most remarkable point is the statement attributed to one of
them, a locksmith, who made the instruments with which they
picked the locks, that being at church on several occasions after his
crime to hear mass he had been quite unable to see the host at its
elevation; but after his confession in Newgate he saw it quite
plainly. If this was the genuine statement of the culprit himself,
it is a very remarkable instance of the effect of a burdened conscience
on the imagination and the senses.''

Finally, we have a curious ordinance, partly directed against one
form of Sunday labour, but chiefly against the absurd fashion of
wearing shoes with long pikes at the toes, a piece of vanity which
the highest authority in the Church thought it necessary to visit
with ecclesiastical censure. The Pope i^ued a bull that no cord-
wainer should make any pikes more than two inches long or sell
shoes on Sunday, or even fit a shoe upon a man's foot on Sunday,
on pain of excommunication. Neither was the cordwainer to attend
&irs on a Sunday under the same penalty; for not only were fairs
held on that day, but the cordwainer's services, it must be supposed,
were required at the lairs to adjust the dandy's cJumasure^ just aa
much as, in a later age, the barber's aid was necessary to dress his
wig. The papal bull was approved by the King's council and con-'
firmed by Act of Parliament ; and proclaniation was consequently

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made at Paul's Cross that it should be put in execution. Yet, with
all this weight of authority against a silly fashion, the dandy world
had its own ideas upon the subject, and some men ventured to say
they would wear long pikes in spite of the Pope, for the Pope's
curse would not kill a fly. The cordwainers, too, had a vested
interest in the extravagance, though some of their own body had
been instrumental in getting the Pope's interference. ^ They obtained
privy seals and protections from the King to exempt them from the
operation of the law, which soon became a dead letter ; and those
who had applied to the Pope to restrain their practices were sub-
jected to much trouble and persecution.*

In editing this volume it has been my general aim to preserve
the text as nearly as possible as it stands in the MS., with merely
such amendments in the matter of punctuation and division into
paragraphs as might serve to make it more easily intelligible. The
spelling of the original scribe has been strictly adhered to, except
that the contractions have been extended, and where the letter t
has been used for y, v for u, or vice versd^ the modem usage has
been followed. Also to prevent the reader being perplexed by
the frequent instances of a word which is now invariably treated
as one word being divided into its two component parts, as " be
syde*' for " beside/' or the positive separation by the scribe of
one word into two, as in " Arche Byschop,'' a hyphen has been
generally substituted for the blank space between the syllables in
the original MS.

The only other liberty which has been taken with the text is
where unintelligible readings have been corrected by comparison
with other MSS.; and in these cases the fact has been always
stated in the footnotes.

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WILLIAM GEEGOEY'S WILL.

[From Register Godyn, f. 16.]

In the name of God, Amen. The rj^ day of the moneth of Novcmbre,
in the yere of our Lord God m*iiij«lxv, and in the v*^ yere of the
reigne of Kyng Edward the iiij**», ^ William Gr^ory, Citezein and
Skynner of the Gitee of London, and late Maire and Aldreman of the
same, beyng hoole of mynde and in my goode memorye, thanke be it
to God, make and ordeyne this my present testament or last will in
this maner: Li the first, I biquethe and commende my soule to All
myghty God my Creature and Sayyour, and to the blissed Virgyn
Mary his modir, and to alle Saintez, and my body to be buried where
it please God to dispose it. And I will and ordeigne that, first and
principally afore all thinges, alle the dettes which of right I owe to
eny persone or persones be paied. After payment of which dettes I
biqueth to the high Awter of the chirch of Saint Mary Aldermary of
London, where as I am parisshen, for my dymes and ofifringes forgoten
or withdrawen, and for my buriyng there to be had, xl s. Also I wille
that immediatly after my deces there be celebrate for my soule and for
the soules of Johane, Julian, and Johane, late my wifes, and for all
Cristen soules, ij m^ masses. And I biqueth to be disposed for the same
ij m^ masses yiij li. xiij s. iiij d. Also I will that myn executours the
day of myn decesse dele among pouere people after their goode dis-
crecions xl s. Also I wille that the preestes and parissh clerkes that
shulbe of the saide chirch of Aldermary the day of my decesse, doo and
syng every day byfore noon, from that day unto that day a moneth than
nexte suyng, a masse of Requiem by note, and erery day after noon
Placebo and Dirige by note for my soul, and the soules of my said wifes,
and all Cristen soules. And I biqueth to eyerych of the saide preestes
and parissh clerkes that shalbe present dailly at the saide masse, Placebo,
and dirige, by all the said moneth, viij s. iiij d. Also I wille that myn
executouris undrewriten by y yeres next suyng after my decesse fynde

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an honest preest to syng for mj sonle, and for the sonles of my said wyfes,
and all Cristen sonles in the chirch aforsaide. And that the same preest
sey every "Wednesday and Friday for my sonle and the sonles afor-
saide, Placebo, dirige, commendadon, and the sawlter of onr Lady Saint
Mary. And I biqneth and wole that the same preest have yerely for
his salary xj marc sterlinges. Also I wol ]>at myn ezecntonrs ayenst the
moneth day after my decesse ordeyne xij yerdes of blak clothe, price
the yerde iij s. iiij d., to cover therwith my here. And after my
terment fnllfilled I woll that the same xij yerdes of clothe bo gyfen and
departed among iiij pore men or wommen moost needefnll to pray for my
sonle. Also I wille that myn executonrs, the day of my moneth mynde,
dele, and gif to ponere men and women cs. Also I biqneth to the
chirch werk of fe said chirch of our Lady Aldermaiy, xvj li. xuj s. iiij d.
to thentent that the parisshens there pray for my sonle and the sonles *
aforsaide. Also I biqneth towarde the amendyng and reparacion of the
fowlest weyes aboute London, after the discrecions of myn executours,
xli. Also I biqneth to the wiyfe of John Elys, dwelling in Saint
Antonynes parissh, xxxiij s. iiij d. Also I biqneth to Johan Johnson,
a ponere woman, dwelling by the same John Elys wife, vj s. viij d.
Also I biqneth to gyf among poner folk liyng sike in the hospitall called
Saint Mary Spitell withont Bishoppesgate, xxs. And to the ponere people
liyng sike in Saint Bartholomewe Spitell, xxs. And to the ponere
seke people of the hospitall of Saint Maiy of Bethelem, xl s. Also I
biqnethe to pe ponere people of Eisyng Spitell, to pray for my sonle,
xiij s. iiij d. Also to Kichard Warners cosyn, beyng snster in the same
Eisyng Spitell, yjs. viijd. Also I biqneth to the ponere people liyng
in the hospitall of Saint Thomas the Martir in Sonthwerk, xxs. Also
I biqneth yj li. sterlinges eqnally to be devided and departed among the
prisons of Lndgate, Newgate, and the ij Connteres in London, that is to
wite, to enerych of the same iiij prisons, xxx s. Also I biqneth to
acqnite prisoners out of Lndgate and Newgate moost needefnll, xli.
after the discrecion of myn execntonrs. Also I biqneth to parte and gif
amoDge ponere folk moost needefull, liggyng bedred in London and the
subarbes therof, xls. Also I biqneth to the fratemite of Corpus
Christi of Skynners of London to be put in their comen box to the
sustentadon of ponere people of the same fratemitee to pray for my

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Boule and the sotdes aforsaid, x 11. Also I biqneth to the fratemite of
our Lady of the Skynners of London to be put in the comen box therof
toward the sustentacion of the pouere people of the same fratemite, c s,
Also I biqueth to the preest of the said fratemite of Corpus Christi to
pray for my soule and the soules aforsaid, vj s. viij d. Also I biqueth to
the fratemite of Saint John Baptist of Taillours of London, xx s. Also I
biqueth to the hous of freres minours in London, to pray specialy for my
soule and the soules aforsaid, Ixvj s. viij d. Also I biqueth to the frere
Kiry, frere mynour, to pray for my soule, xx s. Also to maister Godard
thelder, a nother frere minour, xx s. And to maister Godard the yonger,
his brothir, a nother frere minour, xiij s. iiij d. to pray specialy for my
soule and the soules aforsaide. Also I biqueth to the hous of frere
prechours in London to pray specialy for my soule and the soules aforsaide,
xl s. Also I biqueth to the hous of frere Augustines in London to pray
for my soule and the soules aforesaid, xl s. Also to ]>e hous of Frere
Cannes in Flete Strete in the subarbes of London, to pray for my soule
and the soules aforsaide, xxyj s. yiij d. Also to the hous of Crouched
Freres in London to pray specialy for my soule and the soules aforsaid,
xiij s. iiij d. Also I biqueth to every prisoner convict in the prison
of thabbot and Covent of Westmynster, to pray for my soule and the
saules aforsaid, xxd. Also I wille that oon tyme after my decesse
myne executours after their discrecions shull kepe an obite in the parissh
chirch of Mildenhale for my soule and for the soules afore rehersed.
And I will that they spend aboute that obite among preestes, clerkes,
wex ringyng of belles, brede, chese, and ale, and in distributing to pouor
people moost nedy, xl s. Also I biqueth to Maister Thomas Sygo, my
cosyn, to pray for my soule, xiij s. iiij d. Also I biqueth to the fratemite
of Jesu founded in the Crowdes undir the Cathedrall chirch of Saint
Paule of London, to pray for my soule and the soules abovesaid, vj s. viij d.
Also I biqueth to the Priour and Couent of pe Chartirhous next London
to pray for my soule and \>e soules aforsaide, xxvj s. viij d. Also I
biqueth to the priour and covent of the Chartirhouse of Shene, to pray for
my soule and the soules aforsaid, xx s. Also I biqueth to the hous
of nonnes at Syon, xls. and to my goddoughter, the doughter of
Kauf Skynner, nonne in the same hous, xx s. to pray for my soule
and the soules aforsaide. Also I biqueth to Margarete Toon, my god-

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doughter, servannt in the same hous at Syon, xiij s. iiij d. Also I biqueth
to the Prioresse and Covent of Clerkenwell, xiij s. iiij d. Item to the
Prioresse and Covent of the Meneresse beside London, xls. And to
J>e Prioresse and Covent of Halywell beside London, xzxiijs. iiijd. to
praj for my sonle and the sonles afore rehersed. Also I biqueth to
the doughter late of Henry Thurstone, xiijs. iiijd. Also to Allelya
taillour, yjs. viijd. Also I biqueth Ixvjs. viijd. to be departed among
poner housholders, bothe men and women, dwelling in the warde of
Cordewanerstrete of London, after the discrecion of myne txecutours.
Also I will that myn executouris of my goodes aftre their discrecions
pay for pouere people dwelling in the same ward, fe next xy^ that shalbe
assessed ther after my deces, xls. Also I biqueth to Thomas Curson,
bedell of the same warde, vj s. viij d., and to his wif vj s. viij d., and to his
son vjs. viijd., to pray for my soule. Also I wille that myn executours
of my goodes after their discrecions pay for pouer people dwelling in
the parish of Saint Johnnes in Walbrok, the next xv*^ fat shalbe
assessed ther after my decesse, xiij s. iiij d. Also I biqueth to everiche
of the prisons of Kyngesbenche, the Marchalsie, and the Flete, xiij s. iiij d.
Also I biqueth xx marc sterlinges to by frise to make gownes and cotes,
and lynnen cloth to make shertes and smokkes, and for o paire of shone
for poner men and women hauyng moost neede, after the discrecion of
myn executours. Also I biqueth 1 s. for to by c quarters coles to be
gyven to pouere men and women in the parissh of Aldermary forsaid,
and in other parisshes where moost nede is after the discrecion of myn
executours. Also I biquethe to Margarete Croke, my doughter, xli.
wherof I will that she haue to hir owne use os. to pray for my soule.
And the othir o s. residue of the same x 11 to be gyven to pouere men
and women after hir discrecion to pray for my soule. Also I biqueth to
everych of the children unmaried of the same Margarete, )>at is to say, v
sonnes and ij doughters, euerych of hem v marc. And if so be that any
of hem decesse, as God defende, than I will that pe parte of him, hir, or
theim so de[ce]ssing shall remayne to that othir of theim than beyng on
lyve egally to be departed by myn executours. And if it fortune all
the same v sonnes and ij donghters to decesse befor the day of my
buriyng, than I wille that the xxxv marc by me to theym biquethed
be disposid by the discrecions of myn executours in masses to be songen,

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finding of clerkes to scole, amending of foule weyes and feble briggys,
in manages of ponere maydens of goode name and fame, and in other
warkes of charitee for my soule and the sonles afore rehersed. Also
I" biqueth to Kateryn, doughter of Thomas Ryche, my goddonghter,
XX 8. Also I biqueth to Cecile Mildenhale, my doughter, Ixvj s. viijd.
Also to either of the ij doughters of )>e same Cecile, xls. And if
either of the same ij doughters dye, than I will that the othir doughter
have the parte of hir so decessing ; and if bothe ij doughters dye
before thai I decesse than I will )>at ]>e iiij pounde to the same ij
doughters by me afore biquethed be disposed in goode uses and waies of
charitee after the discrecions of myn executours. Also I biqueth to
Robert Mildenhale, husband of the said Cecile, xiij s. iiij d. Also I
biqueth to my cosyn and godson, William Essex, the sone of William
Essex, to pray for my soule, Ix s. Also I biqueth to Maister Duflfeld,
one of the Chauntery Preestes of Aldermary chirch aforsaide, to pray
for my soule, xiij s. iiij d. Also to either of William Fissher and his wife,
vj s. viij d. Also to the wife of John Snype, Skynner, xiij s. iiij d. Also
I biqueth to Walter, late my servaunt, his wife, and to their son and
doughter my godchildren, xl s. Item I biqueth to Richard Tritrap, late
my servaunt, xxrj s. yiij d. Item I biqueth to Thomas Lansell, late my
servaunt, xx s. Also to Slapton, late my servaunt, xl s. Also I biqueth
to William Martyn, nowe my servaunt, iiijli. and a borde clothe, yj
napkyns, and a towaill. Also to Baron, nowe my servaunt, Ix s. and
vj napkyns, and a towaill. Also to Alice Wylcok, my seruaunt, iiij li.
and vj napkyns, and a towaill. Also to William Stanley, my godson,
Ix 8. Also to William Lussher, myn apprentice, xx s. Also to John,
the childe in my kechyn, xxxiij s. iiij d. Also I biqueth to Mary, the
wife of William Gregory, xx s., and to the son and doughter of the same
William and Maiy, xx s. Also to Johanne, dwelling at frere Augustines,
to pray for my soule, xiij s. iiij d. Also to William More, Skynner, xiij s.
iiij d. Also to the wife of fe same William vj s. viij d. Also to John
Aunger vj s. viij d. ; and to Johane his wife, yj s. viij d. And to the
preest of the fratemitee of the Trinitee in the chirch of our Lady of the
Bowe founded, to pray specialy for my soule, vj s. viijd. Also I biqueth
to John Cok, Skynner, xxs. and to his wife xx s. Also to John
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Anne Wheler vj s. yiij d. And to Julian Arthure xxvj s. viij d. Also I
biqueth to Baron the elder 7s.,«nd to his wife vs., to pray for my soule.
Also I biqueth to the Recluse at Alhalowes in London Wall TJ s. viij d.
Also to the Ankeresse without Bisshopesgate vjs. viijd.; also to the
Ankeresse without Temple Barre vj s. viij d.;. and to the Ankeresse at
Westmynstre vjs. viijd., to thentent that they and everyche of them
pray spedaly for my soule and all the soules above saide. Also I biqueth
to Margarete Caryngton, my god doughter, vj s. viij d., to pray for my
soule. Also I biqueth to the reparacion of London Brigge cs. sterlinges.
The residue of all my goodes, joialx, and dettes above not byquethed,
after my dettes paied, my enterrement doon, and this my last will in
maner and forme above saide in all thinges fulfilled, I gif to myn
executours undre writen, to thentent that they dispose it for my soule
and the soules of my said wifes, and of my fadir and modir, and all Cristen
soules, in masses to be songen, and in making, repairing, and a-mending
of pore chirches and of feble waies and brigges, in finding of scolers to
scole, in manages of pouere maydens and wydowes of good name and
fame, in aoquiting and redemyng of prisoners oute of the prisons in
London^ in distributing to pouere people moost nedy, and in such other
werkys and usees of pitee and charitee as they by theyre goode conscience
and discrecions shuU thinke mooste expedient to the pleasure of God
and the helthe of my soule. And of this my testament I make myn
executouris John Croke, gentilman, my son in lawe, and John Snype,
Gitezein and Skynner of London. And I ordeyne Maister Thomas
Eborall, clerke, overseer of the Sfone my testament, to oversee that my
willes and ordenaunces in this my testament conteyned in all thinges be
trieuly accomplissed and fulfilled in maner and forme as is aforsaid.
And I pray, require, and desire the said Maister Thomas Eborall, and I
will that he be consaillyng, aiding, and assisting my saide executours
in distributing, gifing, disposing, and doing the saide almesdedes and
werkes of pitee and charitee as he wolde I counsailled and did for hym if
he stode in case like. Also I biqueth and gif to the saide John Croke,
80 ]>at he take upon hym the charge of execucion of this my testament,
xli. sterlinges for his labour in that behalf to be had. And I biqueth to
the saide John Snype, so that he with ye saide John Croke take upon
hym the charge of execucion of this my present testament for his labour

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to be had in that partie xli. sterlinges. And I biqneth to the said
Maister Thomas Eborall for his diligence and attendaunce in the
premissez iiijli. sterlinges. In witnesse wherof to this my present
testament I have sette my seale. Yoven at London the day and yere
aforsaid.

In Dei nomine Amen. Ego, Willelmns Gregory, civis et pelliparius
ac nnper Aldermannns Giyitatis London, compos mentis et sane memorie
mee existens, rolensque certis de cansis menti mee post scripcionem
testamenti mei cui presens codicellas annectitur, et post sigillacionem
ejusdem testamenti noyiter concurrentibus, quedam necessaria eidem
testamento prius per me facto addere et augmentare, facio et ordino
presentem codicellnm in hnnc modum: — Inprimis, cum ego prefatus
Willelmns per dictum testamentum meum inter alia dederim et legarerim
fratemitati Corporis Cristi artis pellipariorum dicte Civitatis ad susten-
tacionem pauperum ej usdem fratemitatis decem libras sterlingorum, ego idem
Willelmns donacionem et legacionem iUas per presentem codicellimi casso,
revoco et penitus adnullo, nolens illas ullo modo executioni demandari
in parte aut in toto. Sed ob sinceram affecetionem dileccionem quas ad
eandem fratemitatem Corporis Christi gero et babeo, ac ad intencionem
quod fratres et sorores ejusdem fratemitatis animam meam in suis
oracionibus Deo specialius habeant recommendatam, ad perpetuam rei
memoriam do et lego supradicte fratemitati Corporis Christi sex oUas
meas optimas argenti deauratas. Item ego, prefatus Willelmns, legata
mea de sexaginta solidis, sex napkyns et uno towaill Willelmo Martyn
nuper apprenticio meo, necnon de sexaginta solidis sex napkyns et uno
towayll Alicie Wylcok, senrienti mee, in dicto testamento meo facta, casso
et adnullo per presentes, volens jam, concedens, et Icgans, quod idem
Willelmns Martyn habeat de bonis meis x marcas sterlingorum ac sex
napkyns et unum towayll, ac quod dicta Alicia habeat eciam de bonis
meis centum solidos et sex napkyns cum uno towaill. Volo itaque, lego et
ordino per presentes quod omnia et singula alia legata et ordinaciones
in dicto testamento meo contenta et in presenti codicello minime revocata
fideliter perimpleantur, exequantur et perficiantur juxta formam, tenorem
et effectum ejusdem testamenti mei; Salro semper et excepto quod
cum ego, prefatus Willelmns Gregory, per dictum testamentum meum

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fecerim et constituerem Johannem Snype, Civem et Pelliparium London, in
eodem testamento nominatom, unum execntomm meorum, idem Johannes
jam mortnus est; qua de causa facio, ordino et constituo Margaretam Groke,
filiam meam, axorem Johannis Croke, alterios execntomm in dicto testa-
ment© meo nominatorum coexecntricem cum eodem Johanne, viro suo, tam
ejusdem testamenti qnam presentis codicelli, ad perficiendum et exequendnm
omnia et singula in dictis testamento et codicello specificata juxta formani
et efifectum eorundem. Item, licet ego, prefatus Willelmus Gregory,
ordinayi per dictum testamentum meum quod unus capellanus idoneus per
executores meos eligendus celibret pro anima mea et alijs animabns in
eodem testamento expressatis per quinque annos in ecclesia beate Marie
Aldermary London tantum; Yolo tamen, lego, et per presentes jam
finaliter ordino quod capellanus per dictos executores meos elegendus
celebret pro anima mea et alijs animabns predictis ubicumque eisdem
executoribus meis melius videbitur Deo placere et saluti anime mee pro-
ficere. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum meum huic codicello apposui.
Hijs testibus, Magistro Johanne Palmer clerico, Johanne Ck>k, Waltero
Bmert, pellipario, Thoma Hardjng scriptore, et alijs. Datum London
secnndo die Januarii, anno Domini millesimo cccc°^ sexagesimo sexto.

Probatum fuit suprascriptum testamentum una cum codicello xxiij die
Januarij Anno Domini M.occo Ixvj^ ac approbatum et insinnatum, &c.
Et commissa fuit administracio omnium et singnlorum bonorum ac
debitorum dicti defuncti, <&c., citra primam Dominicam quadragesime
proximo future &c., ac de piano compoto, ^c. jnrato, &c. reservata pro-
testate, &c.

CAMD. SOC.

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A CITIZEN OF LONDON

IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

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THE SIEUE OF ROUEN.

God, that dyde a pen a tre

And bought us with Hys blode soo fre,

To Hys blys tham brynge

That lystenythe unto my talkynge.

Oftyn tymys we talke of travayle,

Of saute, sege^ and of grete batayle,

Bothe in romans and in ryme,

What hathe ben done be fore thys tyme.

But y wylle telle you nowe present,

Unto my tale yf ye wylle tent,

Howe the V. Harry oure lege.

With hys ryalte he sette a sege

By fore Rone, that ryche cytte.

And endyd hyt at hys owne volunte.*

A more solempne sege was nevyr sette

Syn Jerusalem and Troy was gotte.

So moche folke was nevyr sene.

One kynge with soo many undyr hevyne.**

Lystenythe unto me a lytylle space.

And I shalle telle you howe hyt was.

And the better telle I may

For at that sege with the kyng I lay,

* Ibre that he lovyde as hys own volante, B.
^ Nother syohe another sege sette, as I wene. B.
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2 THE SIEGE OF ROUEK.

And there to I toke a vyse,
Lyke as my wyt wolde suflFjrce.

Whenne Pountlarge • with sege was wonne»
And ovyr Sayne then enter was be gunne,
The Duke of Exceter** that [lord so]® hende.
To Rone, yn sothe. oure kynge hym sende.
Heftrowdys with hym unto that cytte,
To loke yf that they yoldyn wolde be.
And alle soo for to se that gronnde
That was a boute the cjrtte rounde;
Howe our kyng myght lay fer at a sege,
If they wolde not obey to oure lege*
When |?e Duke of Exceter with grcte renownc
Was come by fore the ryalle towne.
He splayyd hys baners on a bent,
And herrowdys unto ]>e cytte were sent,
To meke hem to oure kyngys methe,
Chargyd them uppon payne of dethe.
Not withstondyng hym of hys ryght,
But delyvyr the cytte to hys syght.
For he dyd them to wytte with owtyn bade,*'
He wolde not goo er he hyt hadde.
But or he paste farre in space,
Wynne hys ryght thoroughe Goddys grace.
To that the cytte gaf non answere.
But prayde oure herrowdys furthe to fare.
They made a maner skome with hyr honde
That t^y there shulde not longer stonde.
Gonnys they schott with grete envye,

• Pont de TArche.

** Thomas Beaufort, the King's ancle, a son of John of Gaunt bj Cathe-
rine Swynford.

« Omitted in E. Supplied from B.
d Delay.

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THE SIEGE OP BOUEN. 3

And many were smytte pyttyfully.
And they yssuyde owte many fulle kene
On horsbackys with hyr hameys fulle schene.
The Duke of Exceter droflTe hym yn agayne,
Of them were takyn and sum slayne.*
Whenne that was done with owtyn bode.
To Pountlarge agayne the Duke rode
And tolde the kyng of diat proude cytte,
Howe hyt stode and in what degre.

Nowe to my tale, and ye wylle hede, Nota de

I wylle you telle a cursyde deede, "^"^* ^"^•

How evylle they wrought there,
To** oure kynge com hem by fore.
Subbarbys with owte the towne,
Chyrchys and howse they drewe downe,
And the Porte Synt Hyllary they schende,
A parysche chyrche downe ther rente.
Of Sjnt Hyllary was that same,
And aftyr hyt J^e Porte bare hys name.
At Porte Gausses a downe they drowe
A chyrche of Synt Androwe,
And an abbay of Synt Gervays ;*^
There \fe Duke of Clarans loggyd was.
And the Porte de Pounte doune they bete,
A chyrche of oure Lady swete,
And othyr of Synt Katerjm, that maydyn meke,
And of Synt Savyoure a nothyr eke;
And of Seynt Mathewe they drewne downe one,
And lefte there of stondyng nevyr a stone ;
At Martyrvyle** a doune they mynde.

* And there mofostryde the demhe agayncy

And meny of hU men were take and yslayne. B.
^ Until.

* Synt Jamy$, E., which is dearly an error. B. reads Synt Chrvayt.

* Marehyle, B.

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4 THE SIEGE OF BOUEK.

Of Synt Mychelle a chyrche fynde; *

And of Synt Ponle a nothyr thoo

And mynde doune** a nothyr a lytylle fro.

HjT heggys, gardons and Btreys,*'

They drewe hem into the cytte every pece.

Buschys and brerys and boughys they brende,

And made hy t as bare as my honde.

Nowe was there a prowde araye
That a boute the cytte gaye.
Welle hyt was ordaynyd for the warre
With aUe the fence that myght darre.
The wallys was fulle vary able*
And the dychys depe and fensabylle.
The dyche that was the walle aboute
The londe syde whythe oute,
Hyt was depe and also wyde,
A trenche sewynge in every syde.
A trenche hyt was with a depe dyssende
That was made the diche to defende
That noo man shulde come to nere
In hyr donger® but they were.'
Whoo went that trenche withyn.
With owtyn harme he myght not wynne.
The diche was brode and depe,
And fewe myght fro many man hyt kepe.
The bottom of the diche with yn
Was pyttefallyd ij fote evyr bytwyn.
And every pyttefidle a spere hyghthe

• Fullfyne, B.

^ And onynde Dame. £., which is evidently a transcriber'B error,
reads, Th&y myn^de downe.
» her treys. B.
<* warryable, B.
« donge, £. B. reads donyer,

* left they dede were. B.

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THE SIEGE OF BOUEN.

That there sclmlde stonde noo man to fyght.

And SCO, to make hem clere

That noo man a boute them were,

Fro the pyttefalle unto the walle

Hit was hyghe and stowte with alle.

As thycke of caltrappys hit fuUe was setfce

As meyschys be yn a nette.

With jm the cytte aftyr * the walle

Welle countyrmuryde hyt was welle with alle,

With erthe soo thyke and so brode

That a carte myght goo fer uppon lode.

That poynt they made in there werre

That noo gimne shulde not hym derre.**

Hoo soo wylle hem count soo

There ben a hundryd or too.*^

And also mote I thrjrffe

There ben portjrs fyve.

Of touxys aboute that cytte

Many a schore* there yn be;

And every towre from othyr ys

But of vj. rode in space I wysse;

Ande in «very toure iij gonnys lay,

For to schete dyvers waye.

In the myddys of |?e walle every towre be twyne

Alle that cytte by-dene,

A grete fouler ® was layde lowe

Evyn by the erthe that hit myght throwe.

Every towre by twyne fer lay on lofte

viij gounnys smalle }?at myght schute ofte»

afore, B.
lojme.

But trewly zytte hade they with them also
Qf other toteUys meny other mo, B.
' Score.
A species of cannon.

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5 THE SIEGE OF ROUEN.

And also launcetys layde on hyght

To scliute farre at nyght.*

And at every warde was there set

A eng3me or a trebget,**

And on sum warde sete were ij.

Synt Hyllerys warde was one of tho.

Thys they made hyr ordynaunce

With fence of grete substaunce.

And of thys fence leve we talkynge

And talke we more of oure kynge.

The Fryday be fore Lammasse daye
The kynge remevyde in ryche a raye
To the cytte of grete pryde,
And loggyd hym a lytylle 'per be syde.
The Satyrday he sygnyde the grounde
To hys chjftaynys by-fore that cytte rounde.
A cry on Monday he dyd make
That every man schulde hys grounde take.
At the este ende of that cytte
With[inne] ^ a howse of Chartere
There loggyd hym oure kynge a non,
And with hym loggyd many one.
Of alle worschyppe he ys a welle;
Hys honoure noo tonge may telle.
Of all pryncys for to a counte,
Sette hym pryncepalle in the frounte.
And at the ende towarde the weste^
Clarence the Duke he toke hys reste.
At an abbay he hym lende,**
That was mynyd doune and alle for-schende,

• Ferre an ney, B.

*» Trebnchet, an engine for throwing stones.

^ Om. E. Supplied from B.

«* Abode.

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At Porte Causae that gate be-fore,

And kepte the Fraynysche men yn fuUe sore,

And wan worschippe and grete honoure.

Of Pryncehode he may here a floure.

Thoughe alle prjucys were i-mette,

Nexte the beste he myght be sette.

At the northe syde by twyne

There was loggyd Excetyr fe kene.

And at the Porte Denys he lay,

Where Freynysche men yssuyde owte every day.

He bet hem yn at every brounte,

And wanne worschyppe as he was wounte.

Of alle pryncys manhode to reporte

Set hym for on of the sorte.*

By twyne hym and Clarence^ thanne,

Erie Marchalle*' a man-fuUe man,

Loggyd hym nexte the castelle gate

And kepythe hyt bothe erly and late.

And forthe in the same way

The Lorde Haryngton he lay.

Talbot from Dennifrount^ when he come,

He loggyd hym next that gome.®

Then Haryngton Syr Wyllam

When he dyde hys retenewe he nam/

The Erie of Urmounde^ then lay he

Next Clarence with a grete mayne;

And Cornewale that comely knyght

■ Set JSxseter as for one of the hegt stir cote. B.
^ Thomas Plantagenet, the King's brother.

< John Mowbray, son of Thomas, first Duke of Norfolk. He was restored
to his father's title in 1424.
** Domfront
• Man.
'Took.
V James Butler, fourth Earl of Ormond.

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He lay with Clarence bothe day and nyght;

And many knyghtys in a frounte

That nowe come not to my mynde to counte.

From Exceter towarde the kynge

Roos * and Wylby ^ were loggynge ;

And thenne the Lorde Fe Hewe, ^

That ys a goode knyght and a trewe ;

Syr Wylham Porter thenne lay he

By fore the Porte Synt Hyllare.

FuUe spytefulle werre there was

And ought the cytte y«suyd owte in Jwit place.*

And ofte he droffe hem yn a gayne

Manfully with myght and majme,

And wanne worschyppe alle wayes.

Moche ys that knyght to prayse.

And whylys Synt Kateryns was yolde, ^

Of Mortayne the Erie ' soo bolde,

That abbay and that towne by-twyne,

There he lay and wrought hem tene.

Moche worschjrppe there he wanne ;

Whyle he levyd he was the man.

The Erie of Saulysbury » in that tyde,

He loggyde in that othyr syde.

Syn thys vyage was thus begunne

Moche worschippe he wonne.

* John Lord Boos.

»» Bobert Lord Willoughby of Eresby.
« Henry Lord FitzHngh.

* Ibr ever they came owte at that tame place, B.

* Wa$ un zolde, B.

' Edward Holland, Earl of Mortayne, who died at this siege. See
Williams's ^^Qesta Henrici Quintij" p. 128, note. It must have been after
his death that the title was conferred on Edmnnd Beanfort, afterwards Dnke
of Somerset.

» Thomas de Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, who was slain at the siege of
Orleans in 1428.

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A comely knyght, Syr John the Gray,
On the Mounte Synte Mychelle he lay,*
That abbay and that towne by twyne,
And wan worschippe with war kene.
Sjrr Phylyppe Leche ^ thenne he lay
By twyne Sayn water and the abbay,
^'And kepyd a warde undyr the hylle.
Worschyppe and honoure to hym fylle.
And Carowe,* that baron bolde,
Above he lay, and soo he wolde,
And kepte the watyr by the see syde.*
There fore hys worschyppe walkys wyde.
And Janygo^ lay hym a-bove
A grete Squyer for to prove.
And in that othyr syde of Sayne
Lay Huntyngdone,^ that cytte a gayne,
And helde them yn with manfulle warre
And gate hym worschyppe for evjrr more.
Also Nevylle ^ that nobylle knyght,
And Umfravyle* that lorde soo lyght,
And Arundelle Sjrr Rycharde,
With Huntyngdon they lay inwarde.

■ ** And >an Sir John Grey, knyght, with all hys retenne and ordenannce
atte chapell >at is called Monnt Seynt Mighell." H.

^ The prose chronicle in H. calls him ** Sir Philip Leche, knyght, the
Kyngis tresorere."

* The preceding fonr lines are omitted in B., which thns makes Sir John
Gray, and not Sir Philip Leche, keep ward nnder the hill.

* Thomas Baron Carew.

* ffe kepte a warde as be that $yde, B.

' Jenico d'Artas, a Gascon gentleman. For some account of him, see
Archieologia, xx. 92; and Williams's Oetia Henrici Quinti, 125-6.

' John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon.

** John Nevill, eldest son of Ralph Earl of Westmoreland, who died
before his father in 1423.

* Sir Gilbert Umfraville, sometimes called Earl of Kyme.
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Thoo Ferres » that lorde alle soo
With Huntyngdon he ky tho
At the Porte de Pounte in ryalle a-raye,
And wanne worschippe every daye.
Towarde Pounte del a roche^ on Sayn,
Oure kynge made a gret chayne.
Thoroughe grete pylys he dyde hyt a-ray,
That no vesselle schulde rove a-Tvay.
Afl nye the cheyne a brygge be made
To serve for man and hors i-lade.
Thenn every man myght to othyr fare
In hasty tyme yf nede were.

Sone as Warwyke ^ Domfrount wan
Then to oure kyng a non he cam,
A-non commaundyd hym oure lege
To Calbecke * to set a sege,
And when he come the toune be-fore
They dyd trete with owtyn more.®
He sought that soverayn Erie unto
That he that dede wolde doo.
He grauntyd hem in compassyon,
And selyd uppe a condyscyon,
The watyr of Sayn with owtyn lette,
Owre shyppys to passe with oure frette.
Then passyde oure shyppys alle in fere ^
And keste hyr ancrys Roone fulle nere,
As thycke in Sayn as they myght stonde,
And segydde hyt bothe by water and by londe.

• Edmnnd Lord Ferrers of diartley.

•* Pownte large, B.

c Richard Beanchamp, Earl of Warwick.

<* Candebec.

« B. adds, in place of the next three lines : —

*' And as Hone dyde^ so thay wolde done^
And granted hyt in compooyssyone.**
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And when Warwyke that ende hadde made,

To Roone agayne that ryalle rode.*

By-twyxte Synt Kateryns and the kynge

He loggyd hym and was byggynge

Tylle that abbay in trety was^

And was yoldyn thoroughe Goddys grace.

Then withyn a lytylle whyle

He loggyd hym at Porte Martjmvyle.^

Moche worschjrppe therefore to hym was

And 800 hathe ben in every place.

Saulysbury that was synyde to ryde.

Yet he retumyde and dyd abyde

By Huntyngdon, there lende

Tylle the sege was at an ende.

Glouceter that grac3rus home,*

From the sege of Chirboroughe he come,

At the Port Synt Hyllarye

FuUe manfully loggyd he.

In caste of stone, in schot of quarelle,^

He dradde hym for noo perelle.

But wanne worschjrppe with his werre.

And lay hys enmys fulle nerre

Thenne any man that there was

Be xl. rode and more in spas.

Whenn alle othyr pryncys ben tolde

Set hym for one of the bolde.

Of Sowthe folke* the Erie so wyght.

* that lorde hym rode. B.
»> Martwyle, B.

*^ gome, B. A gome means a man.

^ Square bullets of iron, with pyramidal heads, discharged bj cross-bows.

• William de la Pole, Earl, afterwards Duke, of Suffolk. This was the
nobleman who negociated the marriage of Henry VI. with Margaret of
Anjou, but was afterwards compelled to quit the country, and was murdered
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And Bergayne* that nobylle knyght
With Glouceter ** bothe they lay,
And wanne worschjrppe every day.
And then the pryor of Kybnaynan *
Was come with jm the mowthe of Sajm.
At Harflete he londed evyn,**
With XV. hundryd fyughtyng men,
Welle a-rayde of wane wyse,
As the cuntraye hathe the gysse.
Paste he hyed unto the sege.
And was welle-come unto oure lege.
Then was sayde the Fraynysche kynge
And the Burgaynys caste hyr entrynge ®
In the northe syde of oure oste,
For cause there was playne ' moste.
Oure kyng assygnyd a yenne
The priour * with hys xv. hundryd men
To logge hym in that syde.
For to kepe the wayes wyde.
By the Foreste of Lyones stoute,
To kepe the Fraynysche men owte,
He loggyd hym with owte that woode.
And made wacche and ordynaunce goode
Withowte oure oste iij legys large.
So for to logge hyt was hys charge.

* Richard Beaachamp, Lord Abergayenny, afterwards created Earl of
Worcester.

*» Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, the King's brother.

« Sir John Botiller, prior of Eilmainham, head of the Order of St John
of Jerusalem in Ireland. See Henrici Quinti Oesta {ed, Willia/nU), p. 125,
note.

^ he londyde then, B.

• onttrynge, E.

' plague, B. An obvions clerical error. The prose chronicle in H. sajrs,
" by cause |>at |>ere was lefte entre and most plajm gronnde."
€ pouer, MS. ; but eridently a transcriber's error.

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The knyght thenne there-to sent,* .

And manfully thedyr wente.

Yf the Fraynysche men ofte wolde there that way ,

The fryste frunt he thought to fray.**

Moche worschyppe wanne he there,

And 800 he hadde done ellys where.

And moche worschyppe there he wan

I wolde you telle but alle I ne can.

Thys was oure Sege with ryalle route \

Alle the cytte sette aboute. ]

Nowe of thys cytte wylle y spelle, ^

And of the Captaynys wylle I telle.

'Monsenyour Gy the goode Botlere ®
Was cheffe captayne alle in fere,^
Bothe in castelle and in towne.
He was a man of grete renowne.
Monsenyour Termagon in that spase,
Captayne of Porte Causse he was.
Monsenyour de Roche alle soo
Of Bevewsyn captajrn thoo.
Monsenyour Antoyne, a werryour wyght,
He was leuetenaunt to that knyght.
Herre Chanfewe® was captajme
Of the Porte de Pount de Sayne.
Johan Mawtrevers that [nobylle] ' man
Of the Porte of Castelle was captayne.
Monsenoure Pennewys ^ thenne was he
Captayne of Porte Synt Hyllare.

* therto did $one assente, B.

** Thefwrgte brorvnte they thowgte affray, B.

" Guy le Bonteiller.

^ i. e. of the whole company.

« Ehartf&me, E. Camf&we. B. Chamf&we, H. and H. 2.

' Supplied from B.

» Pemewes, B. Peneux, H.

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The Bastarde of Tejme in that whyle

Was captajme of Porte Martjmvyle.

And Gaunt Jaket or Jakys • of werrys wyse,

He was captayne, and alle so the pryce,

And of alle the skarmoschys that were withowte

Of alle the cytte rounde aboute.

And every on of thes captaynys hadde

V. m\ men and moo in lade.''

And whenn they wolde rayse all the comynaltye,

Many a thousande myght they be.

Men nomberyd them with yn

Whenn oure sege dyde by-gjmne

To iij.ccc.ml and ten*

Of wymmen, chyldryn, and of men,

0' pepylle hyt was a proude score,

A kynge to lay a sege be-fore.

And there-to they were fulle hardy in dede

Bothe in foote and eke in stede.

And als prowde men as evyr I saye,^

And poyntys of warre many one dyd shewe.

Whenn they yssuyd owt, moste comynly

They come not owte in one party.

At ij gatys, or iij, or alle

Sodjmly they dyd owte falle.

And every parcelle there wolde be

A thowsande, or ellys thre,*

Rychely arayde at the beste

And there to prowdely and preste/

• Oraunte Jahyt. B. Chraunde Jahi$, H.
^ Inlaid, i. e, proTided.

• Unto four hundred thewsande and ten. B.
<* knefoe. B.

• A ten thousand, alto mote I the. B.
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Hyt was grete lykyng hem • to hede;
To counter hem^ hyt was grete drede,
For the fensce of hem nought at alle,
For moche of the drede come fro the walle ;
For schot of goonne and quarelle bothe
Sawe I nevyr gretter wothe.^
Evyr as they yssuyd oute and made a fray,
There wolde be schot I dar welle say
A hundryd govnnys at wallys and tourys
With [in]* the mount of ij halfehourys.
Of quarellys noo tonge may sowne
That wolde be schot in schorte rome.
Thys they yssuyd owte tho and thoo,
And on the erthe men shulde be sloo,®
And othyr whyr with spere and schylde,
Whenn they wolde owte in to the fylde.
'Thenn cure kynge lette a diche make
And set ther uppon scharpe pojmtyd stake
And heggys a-bove * for prykyers owte
Alle that cytte rounde a-boute.
Syr Robert Babthorpe in that space
Countroller unto cure kynge he was ;
Bothe hegge and dyche he ordaynyd that,
And moche worschyppe there he gatte.
Then they yssuyd owte ofte on fote,
For in horsse-backe was noo boote.
Bothe in watyr and in londe
Oure men ga£fe hem mete at hond.

* horn, E. hem/or to lede. B.
" lum. £. ham, B.

* Injiiiy. * Om. E.

* Slain.

' Before this in B. occnrs these two lines : —

** And than owre hynge a ory lette mahe
That every man treiely to wake.'*
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And oft oure men were fully slajne,

For rennynge* of the walle soo gayne'*

That was bothe grace and Goddys wylle

Bothe govnnjrs and quarellys went so thrylle,

Trjrpget and spryggalde and grete ingyne,

They wrought oure men fulle moche pyne.

And namely to Glouceter that dere/

For he was loggyd them soo nere.

And come tydyngys newe and newe,

The Burgonnys wolde come for rescue.

Suche tydyngys come that cytte tylle

That the bellys they gon rynge fulle schrylle.

Nevyr aftyr tylde ne ronge the sythe \fe sege was sette,

Ne aftyr tylle the cytte was gette.

Oure kynge demyd j^at Duke of Burgon had ben nere,

And made a fylde with chyftens there.*

Sone tydyngys come hyt was not soo.

A-gayne to Parys ];e Duke was goo.

Thenn with jm fewe dayes

They say he was at Pounthayes,®

And hadde iij.c. thousand'

Of fyghtyng men hym sewand.^

Oure kynge commaundyd with his crye

In hamys every man to lye.

With owtyn the border of hys oste

He made a dyche of grete coste,

• remyge. MS.

•» For they wolde rynne the wallet agayne, B.

« th4it lorde to dere. B.

< Than come ty dynget howe they were nere.

Than tayde oure kynge wyth mery chere,
" Felowetf he mery nowe every chone,
" For we tchallefygte tone anone.^* B.

• Dounthayet, MS. Pownteyt, B. The place is clearly Pontoisc.
' four hundred thowtand. B.

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Pyght with stakys that wolde perysce,*

With turnepykys, and with many an hers ;

Govnnys goode and redy bente,

They were layde in many went.^

The countrollers the werke see,

A besy knyght in chevallere.

And sone they sayde with ynne a whyle,

He come with yn xx myle.

Thys tale was tolde un the Tuysday*

That he wolde com ^ on Fryday,

In that cytte was sayde the same;

Thys of hys comyng they hadde game.

And on the Fryday, with owtyn boode,

To Huntyndone oure kyng roode ;

There he ordaynyd at hys a vyse,

A poynt of warre hyt was fully prysse.

He reryd that warde to batelle boune,*

Hyr backys tornyd toward the towne,

In h3rr a ray so as they stode ;

A nothyr batylle owte of a woode

Musterryd them with batylle sore.

Of Burgayne ys armys sum they bore.^

He made the bataylys for to mete,

As they hadde fought soo dyd they lete,

To make the cjrtte to yssue owte,

But they ne durste for they had dowte,

And supposyd hyt was a trayne;

They bode with yn for they wold not be slajme.

And aftyr that they werryd soore,
And yssude oute as J^ey dyd be-fore,

' hors to perch^. B. \>at wmild perissh. Prose narrative in H.
^ Passages.

•* Thursday. B., with which H. agrees. ** con, MS.

*• Ready. f here, MS.

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FuUe myghtyfuUe with power stronge,

And a-bode a-pon the Burgonnys longe,

Tylle hyt drewe towarde Crystyemas.

Bp )>at tyme there vytayle waxyd scare.

Mete and drynke and othyr vytayle

In that cytte be-gan to fayle.

Save clene watyr they hadde i-nowe,

And vyneger to put there twoe,

Hyr brede was fulle ny gone

And flesche save hors hadde they non.

Kota of the They etete doggys, they ete cattys ;

hanger in They ete mysse, horse and rattys.

that cytte. t? u x i r *x

b or an now quarter, lenc or fatte,

At c 8. hyt was atte.

A horsse hedde for halfe a pound ;

A dogge for J^e same mony round ;

For XXX d.* went a ratte.

For ij noblys went a catte.

For vj d. went a mous ;

They iefte but fewe in any house.

For brede as brode as my bond

Was worthe a franke, I undyretond.

Hyt was febyll that they myght fynd,

For hyt was made in syche a kynde,

Ne of melle, ne of otys,

Bot of branne, God it wotys.

Oynonnyp, lykys, bothe in fere^

Was to hem a mete fulle dere;

There of was a pece at a schelynge.

Welle was hym that myght gete a pyllynge.

A negge at ix d. a nappylle at x d. ;

Suche a market was a-monge thes men.

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There was many a carefuUe herte

By-cause hyr market was so smarte.

They caryd not for exspens of goode.

For they myght fynde noo foode

Where on they myght hyr mony were;

And that made them soo fuUe of care.

They ete uppe bothe roote and rynde

Of docke of gras • they myght fynde.

Thenne to dye they dyd be-gynne,

Alle that ryche citte withyn.

They dyde faster every day

Thenn men myght them in erthe lay.

There as was pryde in ray be-fore,

Thenn was hyt put in sorowe fuUe score.

There as was mete, drjmke and songe,

Thenn was sorowe and hunger stronge.

Yf the chylde schulde be dede.

The modyr wolde not gyf hyt brcdde,

Ne nought wolde parte hyt a scheve

Thoughe sche wyste to save hys lyve;

Ne the chylde the modyr gyffe ;

Every on caste hym for to leve

As longe as they myght laste.

Love and kyndenys bothe were paste.

Alle kynjlenys love was be-syde

That the chylde schulde fro the modyr hyde,

To ete mete that shulde hyt not see.

And ete hyt alle in prevyte.

But hunger passyd kynde and love,

By that pepylle welle ye may prove.

Yet in the wallys they made hyt stoute

For. we shulde not wyt with-owte.

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And sum stale a- way as they myght cache,
And they were takyn ay with-owte wacche.**
AUe they us tolde of hyr myschyffe,
And yet we can not them be-leffe,
That they shulde stonde in suche a state
By-cause that hyr warre dyd not a-bate.

Thenn with yn a lytylle space,
The poore pepylle of that place,
At every gate they were put oute
Many a hundryd in a route ;
That hyt was pytte hem to see
Wemme[n] come knelyng on hyr kne,
• With hyr chyldryn in hyr armys,
To socoure them from harmys;
Olde men knelynge them by
And made a dolfulle cry.
And alle they sayden at onys thenne,
*^ Have marcy uppon us, ye Englysche men."
Oure men gaffe them of oure brede,
Thoughe they hadde don sum of oure men to dede,
And harme unto them dyd they non,
But made them to the dyche gone.
There they kepte them a baycche
That non of hem shulde passe oure wacche.
Meny of them sayde they hadde levyr ben slayne
Thenn in to the cytte goo a-gayne.
They tumyd thenne with murmumcyon.
And cursyd hyr owne nacyon.
The cytte wolde not lete them yn,
There of I wote they dyd grete syn.
For many one there dyde for colde
That warmythe of howese savyd wolde.

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That seson of Crystysmasse,
I shalle you telle a fayre grace,
And a mekenys of oure kynge,
Of goodenys a grete tokenynge.
He sent a-pon Crystysmasse daye
Hys herrowrys * of armys in ryche a-raye,
And sayde, by-cause of that hyghe feste,
Bothe to moste and leste,
With yn the cytte and with owte,
That were stories, and vytaylys with-owte,
They shulde have mete and drynke inowe
And save condyte to come there too.
They sayde ** Graunt marcy," alio lyghtely,
AlS thoughe that they hadde sette lytylle |?erby,
And unnethe they wolde graunte a space,
The pore to come there to that witj^-owte was.
ij prestys and iij men hem with "
To bryng hem mete they grauntyd grythe;
And yf there come any moo,
Them to slay they swere thoo.
On rowe ]?e pore were set in sete.
The prystys brought them hyr mete
They ete an dronkc and were fuUe fayne
And thankyd God '^ with alle hyr mayne.
And as they sette hyr mete to fong
Thys tale was them a-mong:
** A myghty God," they saydyn then,
'* Of tendyr hertys ben Englysche men.
** Lo, here oure excellent kynge
*' That we have ben so long stondynge,

* So in E. herawdet. B.

*» Sare to two prestes and no mo hem irith. B. The prose chronicle in
H. says, "two prestis and iiij servanntes.'*
<= our kynge. B.

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" And nevjrr wold obbey hym to,

** With oure wylle the omage hym do,

** Of us nowe hathe more compassyon

"Thenn hathe oure owne nacyon.

'* That God as f ou art fulle of myght,

" Graunt hym grace to wynne hys ryght. "

Thus the pepylle be-gan to speke.

Thenn to hem thys ij prystys toke.

When they hadde et3m they wente hyr way.

The trewys leste but that day ;

And as the nyght be-gan to come

They hyr way yede sone.*

Thenn wacche and warde fulle strayte
Bothe day and nyght on hem they wayte,
To holde them yn, bothe grete and smalle ;
For hunger brelgrthe the stone walle ;
And the captaynys of that cy tte,
Mayre, burges^ and yemonrye.
For nede they muste wante mete,
Conselle they toke that they wolde trete.
A-pon the newe yerys evyn at nyght
At every gate of cjrtte ];er callyd a knyght ;
There was no man that tyrae them herde.
With-owte answere forthe they farde.
Save a-pon Huntyng done ys syde,
Whenn they callyd in that tyde,
At the Porte de Fount of Sayne,
They answeryde lull sone a-gayne.
A knyght thenn askyd what they wolde.
They sayde for sothe and thus they tolde.
** Speke with a knyght of oure lynage
*' Or with sum lorde of Baronage. "

• For nyzt at the nyght began to storcy
So gnn azen all that thcr jrorc. B.

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He sayd, " For sothe I am a knyght ;"

And they hym askyd what he hyght.

He sayde " My name ys Umfrevyle."

They thonkyd God and sayde J^t whyle,*

" Of Normandy the olde blode

*' Shalle helpe that we may have a ende goode

** By-twyxte us** and thys worthy kjmge."

He sayde, "What ys youre wylljmge?"

They saydyn, " With[owte]*^ any sporte,

*' We have ben at everyche Porte

" Where thys pryncys lyen before,

** And callyde aftyr them sore.

" Fryste at Clarence, that excellent,'*

** Ought we callyde or we wente.

*^Thenn at Glouceter the goode,

** Oftjm callyd and longe stoode.

" Thenn at Exceter we were,

** FuUe many tymys were callyd there.

** At Warwycke warde the Erie so fre

'* We callyd moo then tymjs thre.*

** Alle so at the Erl Marchalle we were,

** There was non that wolde us hyre.

" That we thp callyd yf they do muse,

** We pray you the ye us excuse,

** And pray thes pryncys for Goddys sake,

** That ys Lorde of alle and dyd us make,

** As they byn dukys of dignyte,

** And cheftaynys cheffe of chevalre,

** Unto the kyng pray for us,

* and the twete Seynt Oyle. B.
'' you, B. ut. B.

*= Om. E. With owte any more reporte, B.
^ that lorde so ex$elente, B.

• Here 56 lines have been transposed by the copyist in E., who^goes on
from this place to the 13th line on p. 25,

" Tolde they thys tydyngys alle in fere."

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24 THE SIEGE OF ROUEN.

** That we myght fynde hym gracyus;

'* And we wylle you also

** Unt[o] the kyng for us to go,

" Besekyng hym for love of that Kynge

*' In vj dayes that made alle thynge,

** With hys wyt and hys a-vyse,

** (Of alle othyr pryncys he ys J^e pryce,)

** And also for hys owne prynce hode,

*' And for hys moche manhode,

** And he ys kyng excellent,

'* And unto non othyr obedyent,

** That levy the here in erthe be ryght,

*' But only unto God al myght,

*' With-yn hys owne Emperoure,

** And also kyng and conqueroure,

" That he wylle graunte us, of hys grace,

" Save condyte and also space,

" Nought to with-stonde oure offence,

'* That we myght come unto hys presence,

** xij of us in one assent,

" Oure wylle to telle and oure entent.

** And with the myght of Goode soo fre,

'* May we come onys J^at we myght he see,

** We wylle hym say by ly tylle instans

*• Shalle turne the prynce to grete plesaunce."

Quod Umfrevyle, '' Thys I assent."

He toke hys leve and forthe he went

To Clarens |?e duke so dere

And tolde hym thys tydyngys alle in fere.

He thonkyd God and Marye eke

That owre enmys were made so meke.

And sayde ** We wylle with fuUe goode wylle

** Speke for them the kyng untylle."

Lo, so sone he undyrtoke,

And mekenys he nought for soke.

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THE SIEGE OF ROUEN. 25

He ys a prynce for to commende,

But fewe in londe suche we fynde;

He ys manfulle whylys ];e warre dos laste

And marcyfuUe when wer y s paste ;

Manhode, mekenys, bothe wyt and grace,

He has, content in lytylle space.

Hym wantyd no thynge j^at a prynce shulde have :

Almyghty God raoste * hym save !

Then Urafrevyle he toke hys leve,

Hys message went he for to meve.

To Glouceter then dyd hee goo.

To Exceter ]?e Duke alle soo.

Tolde they thys tydjmgys alle in fere,

And thanked Grod of hevyn dyre.

That ther enmys agayne there wylle

For socoure shulde sende tham tylle ;

And sayde they wolde for Goddys sake

Helpe a goode ende for to make.

Lo ! ** thos pryncys of mekenys

(God save them alle from sekenys !),

Thoughe they hadde sufferde war smarte,

Yet were they marcyfulle in heile.

Thenn Umfyrvyle hys leve there tas,

And passyd forthe on hys pace

To the Erlys alle by name,

And they hym sayde alle the same.

Loo ! thes grete men of chy valrye

Soo sone were in charyte.

There God of Hys grete grace

He them spedde in every place.

• nwte. H.
** 7b. E.

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2fi THE SIEGE OP ROUEN.

On neweyerysday in the mornynge
Umfyryyle went unto the kynge,
AUfe the mater to hym he sayde,
Lyke as hjrt was unt[o] hym layde.
Oure kynge with counselle and wyse
Also by hys owne wyte and vyse,
Graunt the cytte alle hyr wylie,
That xij. of hem shuldc com hym tylle.
And of hys lordya every che on,
A-gayne hjrt was nevyr of them non,
Lo ! that Prynce pryncypalle,
Of worthynys he passythe alle.
Lo ! howe he provyd hym manfully,
And also fulle marcyfully.

Thoughe they had of hys men so many maymyd,*
And 80 gretely hym grevyd,
And put hym unto so grete a coste,
And of hys men so many loste,
And so withstondyng hym of hys ryght,
And then were fallyn in to hys myght,
At hys wylle them to greve,
Yf he wolde venge hym with myscheve.
Then for to lyght so lowe,
Of hyr wylle to wytte and knowe.
Also to graunte them trete,
There was marcy and charyte 1
And they so grevysly hym had gylte
And of hys pepylle so many ^ spylte;
He to graunte hem of hys grace
A marcy fulle mete hyt was.

» I'or tho thai had hym oft ameved. B.
^ $ony. E. An obTions clerical error. B. reads : —
" And of hys men meny one spylte,**

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The chylde of God I wote he ys

That dothe J^e goode for the mys.

Of goodenys he lackythe noo thynge

That ys semyng for a kynge;

That Cryste for Hys Passyon

Kepe hym in Hys regnacyon !

Whenn he hadde grauntyd as I have tolde,

To Umfrevyle the knyght so bolde,

He askyd '* Syr when shalle thys be?" —

** If that they wylle, to morowe," sayde he.

Umfrevyle hys leve there hente,

To the cytte a-gayne he wente,

And when he corae unto the gate

The statys • he founde there ate.

He sayde ** I have ben at oure kynge

** And he hathe grauntyd you youre wyllyng.

** To morowe by-tyme loke ye be yare,**

" For xij of you shalle with me fare.

" And sythe ye shalle goo hym to,

** Thys counselle I rede you doo.

*' To morowe, I wotte, ye schalle se

** The ryalste prynce of Crystante.

** With suche a prjmce yet ye nevyr spake,

" Ne not so sone a worde can take.

** Thynke with herte by fore youre tunge,

" Leste youre wordys ben alle to longe.

*' Speke wordys but lytylle and welle hym set

** With that prynce when ye be met ;

** For one worde wrong and owte of warde

** Myght cause you alle to fare fulle harde ;

** For-thy of wordys be ye wyse

** And say not withowte a vyse."

^ of Rone, B. o/tkecitte, H. »» Readj.

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28 THK SIEGE OF KOUEN.

They thonkyd hym alle cuitesly,

And sayde, " Mon syr, graunt mercy,

•' And ye thus moche good wolde us teche,

** Or that we com unto |?at pryncys speche,"

And sayde ** A dewe " and went hys waye —

Thys was Sonday and Neweyerysday.*

On that othyr day by pryme

Urafrevyle he come that tyme ;

And of the kyngys squyers gcnte

That tyme with hym a certayne wente,

And many yemen with hym also

Were assygnyde for to go.

They wente to Synt Hyllarys gate,

The xij men come forthe there ate ;

iiij knyghtys, and iiij clerkys.

And iiij burgcys wyse of workys;

And they alle were clad in blacke.

Maner they were ** and fayre they spacke.

When they com unto Chartryte *

The kyng hyryng masse was he.

With yn Chartyr howse with yn dyd lyende,**

Tylle the masse was at ende.

Forthe come the kynge with owtyn let

Where he had knelyd in a closet,®

■ Onto the Sonday after Neive zere daye, ^. New-year*8 day, however,
was Sunday in 1419 ; bo that the reading in our text may be quite correct.
In H. the passage stands thus :

" He seyde adewe and went hit waye,
** TJie Satirday after Neieyeretday^
" At that honre of day at primes ^ &c.
thus omitting the date of the conference with Umfrayille, but placing the
interview with the King on the Saturday following.
• Co^niely of chei'e. H.

^ the house of Chart nre» H. tht hotit of Char it e. B.
*> alle they did lende. H. '
<> A pew.

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With a chere so chevetaynelyche

So lyght of loke and so lordelyche.

Solemp with semeland so sad

To se the kynge men myght be glad.

As sone as the Fraynysche men hym se

That lorde be fore they fylle on kne.

He blessyd them with statefulle chere

As he ne wyste what they were.

They incl3myd with meke speche

And a bylle to hym dyd they reche,

An bade a lorde to take the bylle,*

And sumwhat more he tumyd hem tylle.

What hyt ment, as I hyrde say,

A tretys they wolde have by sum way.

They hym be sought for Goddys sake.

That hevyn and erthe and alle dyd make,

Bothe este, west, northe, and soughthe.

That he wolde hyre them speke with mouthe.

And he bade them speke alle hyr wylle,

And they were fayne and knelyde stylle.

They sayde, *' We you be seche and praye

** For Hys love J?at dyde on Goode Frydaye,

" And for hys Modyrs love so fre,

" Consydyr ye the chary te,

'* The pore pepylle that ben with owte

" In youre dychys rounde a-boute,

" That ben there and lacke mete and brede,

*' For hunger many on ben dede.

** Have ye pytte tham uppon

" And graunte them leve for to gone."

• The kynge hade Exietere loke on that bylle. B. He taughte a lorde
to take her bylle. H.

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30 THE SIEGE OF KOUEN.

Alle stylle he stode that whyle,

Nothyr dyd he laughe nor smyle,

But with a countenaunsce fulle clere,

And with a fulle lordely chere,

Nor to raylde, nor to stronge,*

But in a mene withowtyn change.

Hys countenans dyd he not a bate,

But stylle he stode and in astate,

Or hym lyste to geve an answere.

He sayde, ** Felowys, hoo put them there,

** To the dyche of that cytte?

** I puttc them not there, and J?at wote ye.

** Nothyr hyt was not myn ordynaunce,

** Ne non passe by my sufferaunce.

" Let them fynde that they have sought ;

** They a bode in the cytte whylys they mought.

** And as to you, ye knowe welle thys,

** Ye have offendyd me with mysse,

** And fro me i-kepte my cytte,

'* That ys mjm herrytage so fre,

** And ye shalle be my lege men."

They answeryd and sayde then,

" Of thys cytte that we here kepe

*' We have a charge, and that a depe,

** That us betoke oure soverayne lege,

** For to defende from saute and sege.

** We ben hys lege men i-bore,

'* And also we have to hym swore,

*' Also to the Duke of Burgayne fre,

*' Of hym a fulle depe charge have we.

" But wolde ye of youre grete grace

'* Graunt us leve and space,

* Btraunge. H.

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" Sum of us to hem for to goo,

** That we myght warae them of oure woo

•* And of oure faythe us to excuse,

** Many of us wolde them refuse,

" And to you delyvery youre cytte

** And many of us youre lege men be." *

He sayde, " I put you owte of doute,

** My cytte wylly not goo with owte.

** And as touchyng to youre Freynysche lege,

** He wot fuUe welle I holde a sege.

** The Duke of Burgayne also

*• Welle they wote bothe too;

*' And thys whyle that I here have ben

*^ Ofte massyngers hathe gone us by-twyne

" If them lyste to nyght me nere.**

** Welle they wote to fynde me here.

" Welle they wote I wylle not gon

" With owte my ryght for frende ne fon.

*' Sythe they hyt longe be fore knewe,

" To sende them message newe and newe,

** Hyt were to me but novylte;*^

** To us but superfluyte.

'^ Suche massage shalle tham non be sent

'* Hit ys noo nede ne compotent."

Whan he hadde gevyn then that answere

Of that mater they spake no more.

They sayde, " Hyt js fiille lyke to wyn

'* Eone cytte with men there yn."

He sayde, ** Hyt ys myn owne londe,

** I wylle hjrt wjm, thoughe ye hit with stond;

■ ** And alU zoure owne liege men be.** H.
^ meyze me nere. H.
* to ham no neweUie. B.

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32 THE SIEGE OF ROUEN.

'* And the men that ye so draffe
** Shalle be rewarde lyke as they serve."
With that worde they were a dradde
Then spake a clerke and thys he sayde :
" Soverayne lorde, yf ye wylle hede,
** In story thus I fynde and rede.
** ij chevetaynys a day had set,
" And with hyr hoste they met;
** Bothe a rayde uppon a fylde
'* And bothe ij to batayle yelde.
** The wekyr party with les men yn
** Brought the bygger brede and wyne,
** In tokenyng that they shulde be
*' MarcyfuUe and of pytte.
** Lo, we brynge you bredde and wyne,
** We brynge you Rone the cytte fyne."
He sayde, " Rone ys myn herrytage,
^ " I wylle hit have with owtyn fage;*
'* And for thys tjrme I rede you doo
^* That marcy may be grauntyd you to.
" And at the reverence of God alle myght,
*' And of hys modyr, |>at maydyn bryght,
" Of tretys I shalle graunte you space,
** If ye do welle ye may have grace "
Thenn they sayde, " Syr, for charyte,
" Howe wylle ye to oure pepylle see,
'* That in the dychys suffer payne
" And for defaute dyen lyke swyne?"
He answeryd with wyt fulle wyse.
And sayde, *^ Ther on I wylle take a vyse.
" As God me puttys in herte and wylle,
" So wylle I do that pepylle tylle.

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" As me my red ys, soo wylle I rewe " —

With that he went and sayde '* A dewe.'*

The Fraynysche men in the same whyle,

Forthe they went with Umfrevyle.

Towarde the cytte as they yode,

They spake of oure kynge soo goode*

They sayde, " He ys, at oure a vyse,

** Of alle erthely pryncys the pryce,

" Takyng rewarde of hys chere,

" And to hys countenaunce so clere;

** To hys person in propyrte;

" To hys fetowrys and hys beute,

" And to hys depe dyscrecyon,

" That he hathe in possessyon^

'* And to hys passyng prynce-hode,

** And to hys mykylle man-hode.

** And he ys marcyfulle in myght,

" And askysse no thynge but hys ryght.

*•' Thes vertujrs ys a grete thynge

" To be withyn an erdely kynge.

" Howe shulde he but W3m honowre?

** Howe shulde he be but a conquerowre ?

** Welle we wote withowtyn wene,

" God hym lovys, and that ys sene/*

Thys the Fraynysche men of hym talkyd,

Towarde the cytte as they walkyd.

There leve of Umfrevyle they toke,

And in to the cytte the gon roke*

A pon that othyr day erlyche

Oure kynge made ij tentys uppe to pycche,

One for Englysche, a nothyr for Fraynysche,

Bothe were sette in Glouceter ys trenche.

* Roke, i.e., retam. We still talk of a thing rocking to and £ro» of roek^
ing a cradle, &c.

OAMD. BOG. F

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31 THE SIEQE OF ROUEN.

Thoughe the stormys were nevyr so grete.
Dry heddyd ther yn myght they trete.
When bothe pavylyons were uppe ryght,
They went to trete with wylle fiille wyght.
Warwyke, that worthy erle so wyse.
For oure parte he was pryce.
Sawlysbury, that erle so trewe,
And alle so the lorde Fehewe^
The kyngys stywarde Hungerforde, —
By name I can noo moo reporte, —
Fro that cytte cam tham to mete
xxiiij men fulle dyscrete.*
That was a syght of solempny te,

To be-holde eyther othyr parte.

To se hyr pavylyons in hir a raye,

The pepylle that on the wallys lay,

And oure pepylle that was with owte,

Howe thycke they stode and walkyd a boute.
* Also hyt was solas to sene

The herrowdys of armys |>at went by twyne.

Kyngys, herrowdys, and pursefauntys,

In cotys of armys suauntys,*^

The Englysche beste,* the Fraynysche floure,*

Of Portynggale castelle, and toure; *

Othyr in cotys of dy versjrte,

As lordys berys in hys degre.

Gayly with golde they were be-gon,

Byght as the son for sothe hyt schone.

* ofif qfthe Frentthe that werene ducrete. H.

^ iuauntyif i.e., snitable or appropriate. H. reads amy^ntU,
« a hette, H.

* afioure, H.

* Some Portngnese ships were employed by Hemy to block up the month
•f the Seine.

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•

ThjB syght was bothe joye and chore;

Of sorowe and payne the othyr were.

Of pore pepylle there were put owte,

And nought as moche as a clowte *

But the clothys in there backe,

To kepe them from rayne I wotte.

The wedyr was unto them a payne,

For alle that tyme stode moste by rayne.

There men myght se grete pytte,

A chylde of ij yere or iij

Go a boute to begge hyt brede.

Fadyr and modyr bothe were dede.

Undyr sum the watjrr stode;

Yet lay they cryyng aftyr foode.

And sum storvyn unto the dethe,

And sum stoppyde of ther brethe,

Sum crokyd in the kneys,

And sum alle so lene as any treys,

And wemmen holdyn in hyr armys

Dede chyldryn in hyr barmys,**

And the chyldryn sokyng in ther pappe

With yn a dede woman lappe.

There men myght fynde and see fuUe ryfe

By twyne ij ded on lyynge on lyve,

And he not wetyng of there dethe,

Soo prevely they yelde uppe hyr brethe

Withoutyn calle or cry,

As they hadde slepte soo dyd they dy.

Thes were the syghtys of dyfferauns,

That one of joye and J^at other of penaunce,

As helle and hevyn ben partyd a to,

That one of welle and J^at othyr of wo.

* hay hadde on hem unnethe a cloute. H.
** Bosoms.

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36 THE SIEGE OF ROUEN.

There ne was noo man, I undyr stonde.
That sawe that but hys herte wolde change^
And he consyderyd that syght
He wolde be pensyffe and no thyng lyght.
There myght men leme alle there Ijrve,
What was a-gayne ryght for to strjnre.
For when hyt lay in there lotte
They were fulle cruelle, God hyt wote.
And marcy wolde they non have,
Nede causyd them aftyr for to crave.
And yet for alle hyr wyckyd wylle
Mercy they were takyn tylle.

Nowe of the pepylle lat we be,
And of oure tretys talke we.
We than * chalengyde and accused,
And they answeryd and excusyd.
We askyd moche and they proferd smalle.
That was ylle to corde with alle.
So they tretyd a forghtnyght,
And yet a corde they ne myght.
The tretys then they broke in haste,
And bothe tentys downe were caste.
The Fraynysche men them be thought
That hyr owne woo they hadde wrought.
And when they shulde hjrr leve take,
They prayde oure men and thus they spake :
*' For the love of Alle myghty God
" Contynu youre trewys to nyght for good.
" And yf we calle aftyr speohe,
** In that tyme we you be seche,
** That we may have contynuans
•' For to hyre oure audyens.*'

■ hem. H,

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THE SIEGE OF BOUEN. 37

Oure men sayde, " That we aaeent."

Bothe tokyn hjrr leve and forthe they went.

To the kyng oure party paste,

And tolde with tale fulle styde&ste,

Howe they hadde lefte and in what yssu.

And howe they had contynuyd trewe.

Oure kynge was marcyfulle in herte mode.

That they hadde grauntyd he not withstode.

The cytesyns with sympylle chere

In to the cytte they went yn fere,*

Sone in that cytte hyt was spoke

That the tretys was broke.

The poore pepylle alle a boute

On the ryche made a schoute :

" And ye fals tale-tellers,

'* And also men quellers,

** Why wylle ye take no rewarde

'' To us that suffer now so harde,

*' That dye here every day,

" And welle mou ^ J?en men telle may,

** Alle hyt rennys uppon youre coste,^

** For in youre faute we ben loste.

*' ^Ve pray to God that ye answere,

" By fore that Lorde that sufferd sore ^

** At Calverey uppon a roode,

** And bought us with Hys blessyd blode ;

•' That ye be gylty in thys cas

'• We you apele by fore Hys face.

* In company.

^ Welle we, H. Wele ^n telle we tnay, H. 2.

^^ And also rennyth upon our eotte, H.

^ The final words of these lines are transposed in £. as follows:—

We pray to God that sufferd gore^

By fore that Lorde that ye answere.

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38 THE SIEGE OF ROUEN.

•* Wolde ye obey unto oure lege,

'* Thenn wolde he sesse of hys sege.

** But for youre goode that ye hyde,

'* Youre pompe and youre grete pryde,

** And ye wolde enclyne unto youre kynge,

** Thenn myght he sesse of oure langgynge.

'* But ye a corde with youre wylle,

** He shalle com yn thoughe ye nylle.*

*' Youre styffe gatys that ye steke,^

** We shalle them bren and up breke.

** We shalle lat hym in to hys ryght ;

" If ye defende we shalle fyght,

** Levyr then thys to byde here

" And dy for hunger alle in fere."

They sayde, " Suffyr for a whyle,

" For that we doo ys for a wyle.

** We wylle excuse us to that fode ^

*' For to pay but lytylle goode."

Then sembelyd alle in hyr degre *

And every one sayde in hys manere : • ,

" No nede ys to counsel to goo.

** There nys no more but on of too ;

" Othyr deljnrery up thys clos,

** Or ellys be ded ther ys no choys."

To the Port Synt Hyllary they went.

And callyd owte by one assent.

Thenn answeryd a knyght a non

Was callyd Robert ' Syr John.

■ Rlgkte here anoone we schal zou kille, H.

•» Shut.

« Person.

** ^ay iemblid ^ne alle ^t cite.

* in hU degre, H.

' Jtobesard. H.

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THE SIEQE OF ROUEN. 39

" Syrs,'* he sayde, " what ys youre wylle?"

They answeryd and sayde hym tylle,

" We you beseche for charyte,

*' And for the honoure of oure Ladye,

'* For us that ye wylle spende youre speche

" To Glouceter, and hym by seche

" For us to 3peke to J?e kynge, and prayen

** That we myght come trete a gayne.

^* We wylle submyt us unto hys wylle

" And alle that longe us tylle,

*' Oure persons and oure possessyons,

** And alle dyspose at hys owne dy8cre8S3m8."

Whenn thys knyght the Duke hadde tolde.

For them to speke he sayde he wolde.

So he demenyd* unto the kynge

That spas he gate of newe tretynge.

Of Cauntjrrbury the Byschoppe fire,

At Synt Kateryns that tyme lay he,

Whenn he hadde knowelege of that care,

In hys herte he tendyrde sore.

To the kyng whyghtely he wente,

And be sought hym with a good intente,

That he myght wende unto that cytte,

For to speke with hyr spjrrytualte,

To helpe a fynyalle pes to gete,

To goo and be a mene at that trete.

The kyng hym grantyd a non ryght.

ij pavylyons a non were pyght

With yn the trenche where they hadde ben.

The byschoppe pyght hys owne bytwyne.

So was the state of spyryualte

A mene to make unyte.

• He inevid it. H.

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40 THE 8IEQE OF ROUEN.

They tretyd day, they tretyd nyght,
With candelle and torchys bryght.

They tretyd iiij dayes in space *
And made a nende thoroughe Goddys grace.
Whenn they knewe a conclusyon,
The Frajrnysche men made a petyscyon,
Alle there worschyppe for to save,
viij dayes of respyte for to have,
That they myght goo unto ^e Fraynysche kynge.
And to the Duke of Burgon sende tydynge,
And in what degre they stode and howe,
Bydyng on them to have rescowe.
That was a poynt of chevalrye,
Oure kyng grauntyd with herte fre,
That they myght wyt welle and when
Howe hyt shulde be dely veryd then.

Nowe to my tale, and ye wylle tende,
I shalle you telle oure cordymente.
In viij dayes, I you tolde,
If noo rescowe unto that holde.
They shulde dely vjrr that cytte
And the burgonys ^ Englysche be.
Alle soo to oure kynge, of mony rounde.
To pay hy[m] 1, ml pounde.
More ovyr they shulde undyr take
A castelle to oure kynge to make
In iij halfe yerjrs with owtyn let.
Sum sayde, " In faye hyt shalle be set." *
And they to have hyr ffranches fire.
By fore as hyt was wounte to be;

• in ^t place, H.

*» burgens. H.

''And upon Sayne it sekold he $ette. H.

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THE 8IEGE OF ROUEN. 41

No man with[jnne] * hjrr cytte to selle.

But cyttezyns that J^er yn dwelle.

And thoo that was a Norman borne,

And Englysche men wolde not be 8wome,

Presener he shulde be us tylle,

Oure kynge hym to ponysche at hys wylle;

And alle the sowdyers that were there,

Hyr goode to leve and goo forthe bare,

In hyr dublettys owte of the towne.

Oure kynge gaffe eche on a gowne.

Thys was hys compascyon,

[And made by good discressioun],**

And Graunt Jakys a non present,

Aftjrr rescu he was sent.

Of that massage he was (iille fityne,

To Boone he come not yet a-gayne,

But massyngers thedyr he sende,

Bade them to come of and make an ende,

Dyd them to wyt, with tale fuUe trewe,

No rescu was that he of knewe.

The viij dayes, the sothe to telle,

On the ffeste of Synt Wolstone*' hyt felle.

That was apon a Thursday.

Oure kynge then in ryche aray.

And ryally in hys astate

[As a conquerour there he sate]*

With [in] a howse of Carterjrte.*

To hym the keys of that cytte

Delyveryd unto hym in fe.

* Om. in £. Supplied from H.

^ This line occnni in H., bat is omitted in E. and H 2.
<^ Jan. 19th, which fell upon a Thnnday in 1419.
' Supplied from H.

• Charite, H.

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42 THE SIEGE OF BOUEN.

Monsenoure Gy the Boilere,
And burgeys of that cy tte in feere,*
To oure kjrnge the keys they brought.
To ben hys lege men they hym besought.
To Exceter oure kynge soverayne
Commaundyd the keys for captayne.
AUe 80 that Duke chargyd he
To go resake that ryche cytte.
And entyr in hys name that nyght,
And Bynyd with hym many a knyght.
Then Exceter with owt3m boode
Toke hys leve and forthe he roode,
To Bevyse that Port so stronge
That he hadde layn be fore so longe.
To that gate fulle sone he cam,
And with hym many a goodely man.
There was neynge of many a steede.
There was shewynge of many a wede,
There was many a getton ^ gay,
Moche ryalte and ryche a ray.
Whenn the gatys were op3md there.
And they were redy in for to fare,
Tro[m]ppettys * blewe ther bemys * of bras,
Pypys and claryons bothe there was,
As they enteryd they gave a schoute
With a voyce^ and that a stoute,
** Syn Jorge ! Syn Jorge !'' they cryde on hyght,
** Welle come Rone, our kyngjrs owne ryght !"
The Fraynysche pepylle of that cytte
Were gaderyd m^. for to see,

• And the burgesses of that city in companj.
^ A smaU standard borne by an esqaire.

• Trom^ettytf i. e, tmmpetters.

• Tnimpets.

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THE SIEGE OF ROUEN. 43

They cryde alle " Welcome/^ in feere,*

" In suche tyme mote ye entyr here,

** Plesynge to God that hyt myght be

'* To us bothe pes and unyte/'

Of the pepylle, to telle the treughthe,

Hyt was a syght of grete reuthe.

Moche of the folke that were thereyn,

They were but bonys and bare skyn,

With holowe yeen and vysage sharpe,

Unnethe they myght brethe or carpe ;

With wan color as the lede,

Unlyke to lyvys men but unto dede.

Patrons ^ they were quente,

A Colayne kynge ^ afiyr to paynte.

There men myght see an example

Howe lacke of foode makys men fulle ylle.

In everyche strete lay dede,

And sum cryde aftyr brede.

Aftyr longe and many a day

They dyde fester then cartys myght cary a way.

The redy way ]?er God them wysse,

That they may bylde in blysse !

Off them y wylle no more spelle,
But of Exceter I wylle you telle.
To the castelle fyrste he roode,
And sythe unto the Portys alle and brode.
Lengythe and brede bothe he met,
And ryche baners up he set.
A pon the Porte Synt Hyllarye,

In company.

Patterns, or workmen's models ; laj figures.
DUfigwrid pater onyt and quaynte. H.
* A king of Cologne ;— allnding to the supposed Three Kings whose sculls
are preserred there.

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44 THE 8ISOE OF ROUEN.

A baner of the Tiynyte.

At Bovens* he set fiille evyn

A baner of the Quene of Hevyn.

At Martjmvyle up he pyghte

Of Syn Jorge a baner bryght.

In the castelle he set to stonde

The armys of Fraunce and of Ingelond.

In the Fryday in the momynge

Towarde the cytte come oure kynge.

iij byschoppys ^ in hyr a ray,

vij abbottys with crossys gay;

xlij ° crossys there were

Of rerygyus** and seculere.

AUe they went in processyon.

A gayne thys prynce with owtjm towne

Every cros in ordyr they stoode.

He kyste them alle with meke mode.

And haly watyr with hys hande

Gkiffe the prjrmate of oure lande,

At Boveys tiie Porte ® so wy de

He passyde yn with owte any pryde,

With owtjm p3T)e or claryons blaste,

Prynce devoutely yn he paste

As j. conqueroure in hys ryght,

Thankyng in hys herte God Ahnyght»

Alle the pepylle of that cytte,

They sayde, ** Welcome, oure lege so fre,

" Welcome in to youre oune ryght,

*• As hyt ys the wylle of God Almyght.*'

• And at the Port Kauw, H.
^ Alle the BUihoppU, H.

« xliiij. H 2. ; bnt xlij. E. and H.
' Beligions, i. e. the religions orders.

• And at the Porte Kaux. H.

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With that they cryde alle ** Nowe welle,'' •

Al so schyrle as any belle,^

He rode a pon a blacke ^ stede,

Of folacke damaske was hys wede.

A paytrelle * of golde fiiUe bryght,

Aboute hys breste hyt was pyght.

The pendauntys dyd by hjrm downe hange

On eyther syde of hys hors stronge.

Thay that hym nevyr arste ® se

By hys chere welle wyste that hit was he.

Soo to the mynyster dyd he fare

And of hys hors he lyght there.

Hys chapylle mette with hym at the doore,

And went by fore hym in the floore,

And songe a responde gloryus.

That ys namyd Quia eat magnusV

Masse he hyrde and ofiyrde thoo;

Sethen unto the castelle he dydyn goo.

That ys a pallays in that cytte,*

For hyt a place of ryalte.

There he hym loggyd in the toune

With ryalte and grete renoune.

Nowe ys that cytte welle in tryste

Incresyd bothe of mete, drynke of the beste,

Thoroughe the grace of God and of oure lege.

Thys he hadde endyd uppe hys sege.

With owtyn fabylle or fage *

Thys procesce made John Page,

• The French ciy of Noel,

^ OsheigheoM^y myztzelle. H.

• browne. H. and H 2.
^ Bieastplate.

• Ertty i. e, before.

' Quit egt magnui Dcminus T • fl. and H 2.
V Falsehood.

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46 THE SIEGE OF ROUEN.

Alle in raffe and not in ryme,

By cause of space he hadde no tyme.

But whenne thys werre ys at a nende,

And he have lyffe and space he wylle hit a mende.

They that have hyrde thys redynge,

To Hys blysse He tham brynge,

That for us dyde uppon a tree.

Say amen for charyte.

Amen.

Explicit \e sege of Rone.

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KINGS OF ENGLAND.

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THE KINGS OF ENGLAND.

Cronycles ofaUe Kyngya of Englonde aftyr the Conquestej
as o/hyr namys ande where that they bene i-byryede.

Wyllelmus Conquestor.

This myghty Wylliam Duke of Normandye,

As bokys olde make mencyon,

By juste tytylle and hys chevalrye

Made kynge by conqueste of Brutjrs Albyon,*

Putte owte Harrolde ande toke poesessyon.

Bare hys crowne fuUe xag yere,

Beryd at Cane, thys saythe thys croneculere.

Wyllelmus Rupus.

Nexte in ordyr by succesayon

Wylliam Rufe his sone crownyde kynge,

Whiche to Godwarde hadde noo devocyon,

Destruyd chyrchis of newe and olde byggynge

To make a foreste plesaunte for hontynge.

xiiij yere he bare hys crowne in dede,

Beryde at Wynchester the cronycle ye may rede.

* In margin 1 "irfe#f, Englonde."
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Henricus Primus.

His brother next, callyde the fryste Henry,

Was to London i-crownyde as I fynde,

Whos brother Robert of Normandye

Granne hym werry, the cronycle makythe mynde,

Reconsylyd alle rancor sette by hynde.

FuUe zxxiij, by recorde of wrytynge,

Yeres he raygnyde, and ys byryde at Redynge.

Stephanus.

His cosjrn Stevjm, when fryste Henry was dede,
Towarde Englonde ganne crosse the sayle;
The Archebyschoppe sette upon hys hedde
A riche crowne, bejmge of hys consayle.
xix yere with sorowe and grete travayle
He bare hys crowne he hadde noo reste.
At Feversham lythe byryde in hys cheste.

Henricus Seoundus.

Henry the Secunde the sone of the Emperesse

Was crownyd next, a manly knyght

As bokys olde playnely done expresse.

Thys sayde Henry by forwarde force and myghte

Slowe Thomas* for Hooly Chyrche ryght

Yeres xxxv raygnyde as ys i-made mjmde,

At Synt Everard beryd as I fynde.

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RiCHARDUS Primus.

Richarde hys sone next by successyon,

Fryste of that name, stronge, hardy, and notable.

Was crownyd kynge, callyd Cuer de Lyon,

With Saresenys heddys i-servyd at his tabylle;

Slayne at Gaylarde by dethe lamentable,

The space raynyd fully of ix yere ;

Hys herte i-beryd in Bone by the hyghe antere.

Johannes.

Next kjmg Richarde rajrnyde hys brothe[r] John,

And afibre sone entred in to Fraunce.

He loste alle Anjoye and Normandye a non^

This londe enterdytyd by mys govemaunce.

And as hit ys put in remembrance,

xviij yere kynge of this regyon.

And lythe at Worcester dede of pyson.

Henrigus Tercius.

Henry the iij his sone of ix yere

At Gloucester was crownyde as I fynde;

Longe warre he hadde with hys baronage

Gretely delytede in almys dede.

Ivj yere raygnyd he in dede,

Beryde at Westmynstre by recorde of wry tynge

Day of Synt Edwarde Marter mayde and kynge.

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Edwaedus Primus.

The fryste Edwarde with the shankys longe

Was aftyr crownyde, that was soo goode a knyght,

Wanne Scotlonde mawgre the Scottys stronge,

And alle Walys in the dyspy te of ther myghte,

Durynge his lyffe mentaynyd trought and ryght.

XXXV yere he was here kynge

And lythe at Westmynester, thys noo lesynge.

Edwabdus Secundus.

Edwarde his sone, callyd Camarvan,
Succedynge aftyr to make hys allyaunce,
As the Cronykylle welle rehersse canne,
Wedd the doughter of the Kyng of Fraunce;
On Thomas of Lancaster he toke venjaunce.
xix yere he hylde his regallye,
Beryd at Glowcester, as bokys specjrfye.

Edwabdus Tebcius.

The iij Edwarde, borne at Wyndesore,

Whiche in knyghthode hadde soo grete a pryce,

Enherytyer of Fraunce withouten more,

Bare in his armys quartle the floure delyce,

And gate Calys by his prudent devyce.

Segnyd in Englonde Iij yere,

And lythe at Westmynyster as say|;e J^ cronaculere.

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RiCHABDUS SeCUNDUS.

The sone of Prynce Edwarde, Kyng Richard j^e Secunde,

In whoos tyme was pes and grete plente,

Weddyd Queen Anne as hit ys i-founde,

Isabelle aflare of Fraunce he lystede to see.

xxij yere he ragnyde here, parde;

At Langle byryde fryste, soo stode the cas,

Aftyr to Wymynster his body caryd was.

Henbicus Quabtub.

Henry the iiij next crownyd in certayne

A faraos knyght and of grete semblesse;

From his exsyle whenne he come home a-gayne

Travaylede aftyr with werre and grete sekenys.

xiiij yere he raygnyde in sothenysse,

And lythe at Cauntreburye, in that hooly place,

God of hys marcy doo of hys soule grace.

Henbicus Quintus.

The V Henry, of knyghthoode lode starre,
Wysse ande manly playnly to termyne,
Ryght fortunate provyde in pes and yn warre,
Gretely experte and marcyalle dyssepleyne, ^
Spousyde the doughter of Fraunce, Katerynne,
Raynyd x yere, who lyste to have rewarde,
Lythe at Westmynyster, not far fro Synt Edwarde.

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54 VJCRSKS ON THE KINGS OF ENGLAND.

Henbicus Sextus.

The vj Henry, brought forthe in alle vertu,

By juste tytylle borne by heretaunce,

A fome provyde by grace of Cryste Jesu,

To were ij crownys in Englonde and in Fraunce,

To whom God hathe gevyn eoverayne sufiycyaunce,

A vertusse lyffe, and chosyn for hys knyght.

Long he hathe rejoysed bothe by day and nyght.

Edwabdus Quabtus.*

^ There is no stanza added to this title in our MS.; hat another copy of
the poem in the Harleian MS. 2251, f. 2 b., ends as follows: —
** Comforth al thristy, and drjnke with gladnes,
Rejojse with myrth, though ye have nat to spende.
The tyme is come to aToyden yonr distres.
Edward the Fourth the old wronges to amend
Is wele disposed in wille, and to defend
His lond and peple in dede with kynne and myght.
Goode lyf and longe I pray to God hjrm send,
And that Seynt George be with hym in his ryght ! ''

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CHRONICLE

OF

WILLIAM GREGORY, SKINNER.

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GKEGOKY'S CHEONICLE.

Here folowythe the namys of the Bay lyes and Sheryfys* of Lon- Ric I.
don in the cytte of Kynge Eicharde the Fryste aftyr the Conqueste ' '
of Englonde that was crownyde the thyrde daye of Septembre the
yere of owre Lorde M^ c iiij" and ix. Ande that yere be ganne
the ordjrr of Sent Tonyes of Prews, the yere of oure Lorde ut
supra W c iiij" x. The namys of the Bay lyes and Sherevys; —

Henricus Comyll 1 »

Eychardus Ryvers !

Johannes Harlyon j * j

_ TN 1 1 Anno secundo.

Kogerus Duke ]

Wyllelmus Haveryll j * x •
_ ;' _ J Anno tercio.

Johannes J3oqueynte )

And that yere Kyng Eicharde made a grette ffeste ande a

solempne at Londyn, whithe grete justys and turnementys why the

alle the chevalrye of Englonde and of othir londys. Also that

yere he wente ovyr see yn to the Hooly Londe, and he toke the grete

cytte of Acrys and slowe many Sarezenys. Ande that yere the

Byschoppe of Covyntre put owte the Pryer of monkys, and put

ther on secular chanons.

Nycholaus Dukette ) *

_ -^ „ , } Anno quarto.

retrus JNewlynne i

Rofferus Duke i *

_ . ° _ ^ . , , j Anno qumto.

Richardus fiz Aldyne )

Wyllelmus fiz Isabel! j Anno sexto.
Wyllelmus Amulphi J

■ It is right to state that the list of City Officers in this Chronicle is not altogether
trustworthy; but instead of correcting individual inaccuracies in footnotes we reserve
our remarks on this subject for an Appendix.

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58 Gregory's chronicle.

AD ^1194 9 Ande that yere Kynge Richarde come home warde yn to Englonde

fro the Hooly Londe ande was take prysener by the Duke of Ostrlche

& ladde to the Emperoure and raunsomyde. Ande his raunsum

drewe to so moche that every chyrche yn Englonde gave every

othyr chalys. Ande monkys ande othyr howsys of relygyon solde

hyr bokys to paye hys raunsome.

Eobertus Besaunte ) a ^

' Anno septimo.

Jokelle le Josowe

Gerardus Antyoche J a *

_ , _ -^ } Anno octavo.

Kobertus Duraunte )

In that yere, the yere of oure Lorde M^ c iiij" xviij be ganne
the Ordyr of the Trenyte. Ande the same yere was Wylliam with
the Longe Berde hangyde ande drawe for erresy. And that same
yere, aftyr |;e Pury fycacyon of oure Lady, the kynge toke the castelle
of Notyngham and deseretyde John hyse brothyr. Ande that yere
Kynge Rycharde was crownyde at 3enne at Wynchester.

RogerusBlountte 1 Anno nono.
Nycholaus Dukette J

Ande that yere Kynge Rycharde wente ynto Normandye ande

gaffe batylle unto the Kynge of Frautice.

Constantinus Arnulphi ) a j •
T» 1 1 T. 1 > Anno decimo.

Kobertus le i5ele j

Ande in that yere the kynge come homewarde, ande at the
Castelle Gaylerde in Normandy he was schottyn thorowe the hedde
whythe a quarelle ande loste ther hys lyffe. But yet or he dyde he
wan the castelle. And his body ys beryd at Fount Ebraunt,* in
Normandy, by hys fadyr. The obyte of the same Kynge Rycharde
ys the syxtye ** daye of Aprylle, the yere of oure Lorde M^ c iiij** &
xiz.

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gbegobt's chronicle. 59

Here he ganne fryste the Mayrys of Londyn. i^^i iqa

The namys of Marys and Sherevys of the cytte of Londonne iu ^^^•
the tyme of Kynge John, the yere of oure Lorde M^ iiij" & xix,
crownyde at Westemynyster.

Amulfus fiz Amulphi > A *

Eychardus fiz Barthi j

Ande that yere Kyng John loste alle Normandye ande Angoye.

Kobetus Deserte 1 a ,

_ , ^ _ , > Anno secundo.

Jacobus nz Barthyn ' J

Wyllelmus fiz Alysie 1 * ^ .

c J Aij u ( Annotercio.

Symon de Aldermanburye )

Ande that same yere, by coney deracyon of worthy men of the

same cytte of Londone, ther were chosyn xxxv, ande swome to

up holde and mentayne the cytte whythe the Mayre and Baylys.

Norman Blunden ) * _,

John Ely j Anno quarto.

And that yere were grete tempestys of wedyr ande raynys,
thoundyr and lyghtenynge, and hayle stonys the grettenys of
eggys fylle downe a monge the rayne, where of treys and vynys,
comys, ande alle maner of firute were gretely dystryde. Al so there
were sene fowlys ande bryddys fleynge in the ayre, berynge fyre
on ther mouthys that brente many howsys ; thys was the yere of
oure Lorde M* CC & ij. Ande the same yere Englonde was
enterdytyd, and other yerys be forne ande aflyr, viij yere durynge,
for the kyngys trespas.

Walterus Browne \ A ®

Wyllelmus Chambyrlayne )

Thomas Havyrylle \ A to

Hamonde Bronde i

And that yere of oure Lorde M^ cc iiij be gan the ordyr ot

Fryer Prechourys; and that yere was a fuUe stronge wynter ande

sharpe, and that enduryd fro Newe yere ys day tylle the Annun-

cyacyon of oure Lady nexte sewynge. Ande that yere were the

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Arr'i204 10 P^*^® holdyn and motyde at the Towre of London. Ande that
yere were sene two fulle monys in the fyrmaraent.

JohnWalhame ) Anno vij».

Rycardus Wynton J

And that yere was Harry Oysyll hangyd.

Johannes Holylonde | ^^^^ ^jyo^

Edmundus fiz Gerardi J

Serle. Mercer },Anno ix».

Henncus de Sancto Albano J
Rogerus Wynchester 1 ^^^^ ^o

Edmundus Hardell i

Ande that yere be ganne a generalle entyrdith thorowe alle Eng-
londe. Here was borne Harry, the sone of Kyng John.

And here beganne the fryste Mayre of London, etc.
Henricus filius j Petrus Bukke

Alwynne, Maior } Thomas fiz Nele

London* primus Anno xj^.

Ande that yere was Synt Maryes Overay be gunne.
Petrus Josowe 1a ..^

Willelmus Blunte J °^^ ^^^ '

Nota bene. — Harry Alwyn was Mayre stylle v yere sewynge.
Ande in thys yere was thys londe reconsylyd a yenne. And the
same yere was London Brygge be gunne of stone oon arche.
Adam Whytteby
Stephin Grace.

Ande the ncxte yere aftyr by one Serle Mercer, and Wylliara
Aldnan the moste parte the yere of oure Lorde M^ cc x. And
that yere a man of Ambigensis was brent. And that yere was
Castylle Baynard destryde.

Henricus filius Alwyny, f Joseus filius Pers ) a ..-o

Mayre of London ^ John Gerlande J

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Ande the same yere was a grete devysyon in J^is londe by twyne John,
the kynge ande his lordys. And Lowes the kjmgys sone of Fraunce -^- • ^ " •
was wagyd with many Fraynysche men, and they dyd moche harme
in thys londe. And Kyng John fledde to Berandowne. Alle so
the towne of Sowtheworke and London Brygge and a grete party
of London was brente uppon the day of Syn Lenarde the Trans-
lacyon, &c.

The same Harry Mayre of London.

EafeHolprlonde } Anno xiiij"

Oonstantine Joswe )

And that yere dyde Harry fiz Alwyn, the firste Mayre of Lon-
don.

Bogenis fiz Aleyne, r Martyn fiz Alesye 'i a ©
Mayre of London \ Petrus Batte J

Serle, Mercer, Mayre ( Salman Basjrnge -i Anno xvi**
of London I Hugo Basynge j

Willelmus Ardelle, r John Travers -i a o ^ --o

Mayre of London \ Androwe Newland J

Ande this yere uppon the vygylle of the Puryfycacyon of oure
Lady the kyng passyd ovyr the see into Pycardy. Also the same
yere, the x day of May, the baronys entryd in to London, and that*
was on a Sonday . And thenne be ganne the warre that was i-callyd
Barownys warre. And thenne was the Majrre putt downe by the
Baronys, and made Serle Mercer Ma)rre viij dayes. And thys
warre duryd alle the yere of Johnne Travers and Androwe New-
lond with ynne wrytynne. Ande the same yere nexte be sayde by
fore the yere of our Lorde M* cc xiiij be ganne the ordyr of Freer
Menourys. And the xvij yere of the regyne of the kyng, the sayde
Kyng John ^ dyde, and ys berryd at Worsester.

Jamys Alderman, Mayre fro
the Trynyte Feste forthe, &c.

• thai MS. ^ John repeated in MS.

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A.d' me 20 ^^^ namys of Mayrys and Sheryvys in the tyme of Kyng Harry

* the thyrde, the yere of oure Lorde M^ CO and xv that was crownyd

at Gloucester, and ix yere of age.

Jamys Aldyrman a parte > . . . ^ i

o 1 -o * ? Mayrys of London,

balamon J5asyng a parte ( -^ •'

Ricardus Sumpturer 1 a ^

„_ -, , Tk, m } Anno pnmo.

Wyllelmus J51ome Travers )

Ande that same yere was Walys enterdyte and Loudwyke the
kyngys sone of Fraunce went home a yenne in to Fraunce with
hys mayne and he hadde of the kjmge a W raarke of sylver.

Serle, Mercer, ( Thomas Bukrelle | ^„„^ .^^

Mayre of London ^^^^ ,^ylonde J

two yere John Vyele } Anno iij".

V John Spycer 3

Ande that yere the kyng hadde of every plowe londe ijs. Also
that same yere Syn Thomas of Canterbury was translatyde. And
the same yere Kyng Harry was crownyd at Westmyster.

c , ., . (?yf«?y^fy°^y^^«''«} Annoiiij^.

bene, Mayre of J John Vyele J

London, Mercer 1 Ricardus Renger 1 Anno v^^

I John le Joswe i

Custace Menke* the cros of Broumholme, and that yere the plees

of the crowne were motyde at the Towre of London. Ande the

same yere was ^e Castelle of Bedforde besegyd, and that duryd fro

the Assencyon of owre Lorde to the Assumpcyon of oure Lady nexte

aflyr ; and that day by grete crafte and stronge sawte hit was

i-wonne and dystryde and nevjrr bylde more, be cause hyt was

rebylle a yenste the kynge. Al so that yere the ordyr of the

Freer Carmys be ganne, the yere of oure Lorde M* cc and xx.

Al BOO the same yere a Syn Lukys eve or day, ther blewe a grete

^ So in MS. The chronicler doubtless intended to hare mentioned the bringing
into England of the Cross of Bromholm, of which Matthew Paris gives an account in
the year 1223. To that jear of onr Lord it is also assigned in the text of the Chronicle
of London, printed by Nicolas, which a good deal resembles onr present Chronicle;
bnt still imder the same mayor and sheriffs, and in the 5th year of Henry III.

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wynde owt of the northe est, and that wynde caste downe many ^®"- ^^-
howsys, styplys, turretys, and chyrchys, and treys. Ande the same
tyme were sene in the ayre fyre dragons and wyckyd spyrytys a
grete nombre.

Serle, Mercer, , ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^ j

Mayre of the j -„!^*^ "% onger j Anno yj^

cytte of London ' Thomas Lamberte )
And that same yere was grete persecusion resyd by one that was
callyd Water Bokerell, soo that Constantyne Amulphus was hongyd
on the morowe aftyr the Assurapcyon of oure Lady.

Ricardus Ronger, f WylHara Jowner 1 a o -^:o
Mayre of London I Thomas Lamberte J
Ande that yere the kyng had purposyd hyra to have do kaste
downe the wallys of London. Ande the same yere the ordyr of
Fryer Menours came fryste in to Inglonde, and a man " that faynyd
hym selfe Cryste at Oxynforde, he was cursyde at Aldermanbery at
London the yere of oure Lorde M^ cc xxij.

Ricardus Ronger, f John Travers | ^^^^ ^y-o

Mayre of London I Andrew Bokerell j
Rogerus Duke ^

Martyn fiz WylliamJ
Ande that yere the plees of the crowne were holdynne at the
Towre of London, and John Herlyon fay 1yd of his lawe for the
dethe of Lamberte of le Legys, etc.

Rycardus Ronger, C Rogerus Duke 1 * o

Mayre of London I Martyn Wylliam J
Rogerus Duke, ( Stephanus Bukler \ a^ -o

Mayre of London I Henricus CoUeham J
Ande the same yere the Sheryvs of London ande of Myddelsex
late to ferme the Shervys ^ of London for iij C pounde® by yere, and
that was graimtyd the xviij day of Feverer the yere a fore sayde.
Ande J?e same yere hit was grauntyd by the kynge and hys consayle,
that alle the werys that stode in Temys sholde be dystroyed and

• Here in the margin of the MS. is written " Nota bene," in another hand.
*» Meaning the Sheriffwick. '^ Fabjan says 400^

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ad' m8-3i ^^^y^ ^^^^ ^^^y^ stonde in Temys. AUe so the same yere the
kyng grauntyd to the cytsynnys of London that they shulde* in
alle the kyngys londe, as welle be yende the see as on thys syde the
see; yf any man toke any of ^ the Shervys of London shulde take
stresse of hem of the same countres were they myght be founde in
any place of London. Alle so the xvj day of Auguste the same
yere was i-grauntyd to the cytsyns of London wareyne,

Rogerus Duke, J Stephyn Bukrelle i * .-o

Mayre of London I Henrycus Cobham J
Al so that yere, the vij day of Junij, the lyberteys and the
franches of London were radyfyde. Alle so the kyng gi-auntyd
that every Sheryffe sholde have two clerkys and two othyr ser-
vauntys and no moo for that ofiyces. Alle so that yere was
ordaynyd J>at the towne sholde have a comyn sele, and tha shulde
be yn kepynge of two aldermen and two comeners of the same
cytte ; and that hit shulde not be wernyd nor denyde to poore men,
nothyr to comyners of the sayde cytte whenne they had nede ther
too yf hyt be resonabylle axyde, and that nought be take for the
sayde sele.

Roger Duke, f Walterus Wyncester | * ..-o

Mayre of London 1 Roberte fiz John 3

Roger Duke, f Ricardus fiz "William 1 * ••••o

f, < X , ^TT . t ( Annoxmi®.

Mayre I John Wodeborne )

Ande the same yere was i-geve a decre by the Mayre and Alder-
men of London, with the counselle and comjrnne assent of alle
the cytte, and swome on the Evengely or Gospelle, that fro thens
forwarde they shulde nevyr suffer Shrevys to abyde in here offyce
but oone yere aftyr that day.

Roger Duke, f Mychell de Sancta Elena -> a «

Mayre I Watkyn Denfylde j

Ande that same yere the sayde Roger was putt downe of hys
offysse. And that same yere was dyscorde by twyne the kynge
and Hew de Burgo. And that same Hew was tukyn at Brent-

* So in^S. The words " pass toll free ** should be supplied.
*» So in MS. The writer should have said, " of their goods." .

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woode and brought unto the Towre of London and put in Hen. ni.

r.*^o^« A.D. 1231^1.

preson.

Andreas Bokerelle, ( Henricus Eldymenton 1 * ^ .^

Majrre of London I Gerardus Batte J

Ande that yere was grete harme done in London of fire by

Dame Johne Lamberte.

Anno xvij®.

The same Androwe,
Maire iiij yere
sewynge

Bicardus Roger,
Mayre of London

Wyllelmus Joynor, *
Mayre of London

The same Androwe, ( Symond Marys 'j
Mayre of London I Rogerus Blounte J
And that yere was consecrate Saynt Edmonde of Pounteney,
Archebyschoppe of Canterbury, and that revokyd the fore sayde
Hewe of Burge.

( Rafie Asshewy
John Norman
Bemardus Batte
Robertus Ardelle
Ande that yere was Qwene EI)more crownyde.
the Statute Merton made.

Henricus Cobham
Jordan Covyntre
John Tesaiano
Grerad Cordawner
John Wylhale
John Goundris
Remond Bughey
Raffe Asshewy

Ande that yere was borne Sir Edwarde Kynge Harrys firste sone.
And that same yere was Poulys chyrche in Londyn i-halowyde.
Gerarde Batte, I John Gysors

Mayre of London I Mychell Cony
Remonde Bounghey, c John Vyalle j * o xxv*»

Mayre of London I Thomas Durysyne \
Ande that yere dyde Saynt Roger, Byshoppe of London. And
Wylliam Marche was drawe and hanggyd at Tyburne.

CAMD. SOC. K

Anno xviij®.

Anno xix®.
And here was

Anno XX?.
Anno xxj**.
Anno xxij^
Anno xxiij<>.

Anno xxiiij®.

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A.R mY-48. The same Remonde, i John fiz John j ^^^^ ^^^jo^

Marye * of London | Raffe Asshewy )

And that yere the kyng wehte unto Burdowes.

Raflfe Asshewy, ( Hew Blounte I ^o xxvii®.

Mayre of London ( Adam Basynge '
And that yere the kyng com home from Bordowys a yenne.
And that yere the plees of the Crowne were holdyn at the Towre of
London. Ande Wylliam of Yorke, Rychard Paslewe, Herry Bas,
and Geron of Gay ton, were jnstysys.

MychellTony, . Kaffe Spycer | Annoxxviij».

Mayre of London | Nicholaus Batte )

Ande the same yere Michell Tony and Nicholaus Batte were

Notabene. convycte In a peijury be fore the kynge on the Sacraraentys in

presens be fore alle the Aldyrmen, werefore the same Michell was put

downe of his mayrelte and the sayde Nicholas of his shery vehode.

iRobertus Comill i * • «

ii.uMcxi.uD v^ui 11X11 i Annoxxix^

Adam Benle '

Symon fiz Marie ) a ^q ^x^o

Laurence Frowyke
Ande that yere was translatyd Saynt Edmounde of Pounteney,
and a newme ^ of blode was put in Saynt Thomas of Acris tylle the
feste of Saynt Edmounde next sewynge. Ande that day the kyng
whithe a ryalle processyon hit was brought to Westmyster.

PerysAlein j i?^° 7^*'^ | Anno xxxj".

Mayre of London ' Nicholaus Batte )

Mychell Tony, j Nicholaus Joey | ^^^^ ^^j..

Mayre of London t Galfrydus Wynton )

• So in MS.

^ So in MS. The word is unintelligible, and a blank has been left for it in the
old English Chronicle in MS. Cott. Vitellins A. xvi., which at this period follows
the text of onr Chronicle pretty closely. The Chronicle in'Jnlins B. i. mentions the
matter as follows:-^" This yere was Seint Edmond of Pountney translatid, et uen'
(venarum ?) sanguis depositns f nit in hospicio Sancti Thorns apnd Condnctnm nsqne
ad festnm Sancti Edwardi ; quo die dominus Rex cum honorabili processione yencra-
biliter apud Westmonasterium deposuit."

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Roger fiz Roger,
^ Mayre of London
John Norman
Maire of London

Raffe Hardelle
John Telasano
Hum fray Basse
William fiz Ricum

Hen. III.

I. ... uen. 111.

Anno xxxuj*^. a.D. 1248-68.

xxxnij''

Nicholaus Bate, sheryflFe,
Anno XXX v^

Ande that same yere on Saynt Symon and Judys day there
was a grete w)mde, and dyd moche harme in many placys of Eng-
londe.

Adam Bas)mge,

Mayre of London
Laurens Frowyke,
Mayre of London
Ande that yere, the yere of oure Lorde M* cc. 1., be gan the
ordyr of Frer Austynys.

WUliam Durham j a. xxxvj».
Thomas Wmborne )
JohnNorthamton | ^o ^^^^yo.
Nicholaus rykarde )
Ande that yere the kynge grauntyde the viij day of Juni that the
shrevys of London shulde yerely be a lowyde in the Chekyr by
ther offyce of ther sherevehod vij li. And alle so wbanne the
mayre ys chosyn that he shalle be presentyd to the Baronys of the
Chekyr, and there to take his othe.

John Telasano,
Maire of London

Nicholaus Batte,
Maire of London

Richardus Hardylle,
Mayre of London
V yere togedyr

Johannes Gysours,
Maire of London

Raffe Aswy
Robertus Bylton
Stephynne Doo i
Henricus Walmonde I
Mychell Bokerell
John Lymnour
Ricardus Ewylle j
William Aswy I
Thomas fiz Ricardus
Robert Catylleyne
Johannes Adriam |
Robertus Cornille 1

A® xxxviij^
A® xxxix"*.
A" xl*.
Anno xlj".
A° xlij^
Anno xliij".

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Hen. III. Ande that same yere, the yere of oure Lorde W CO and viij,"

there fylle a J we into a gonge ** att Tewkysbury uppon a Satyr day,
and he wolde not be drawe up owt of the gonge for reverena of hys
Sabat day. And S)rr Eychardus of Clare, Erie of Gloucester, hirde
there of and wolde not suflFer hym to be drawe uppe on the Son-
day for reverens of the hyghe holydaye, and so he dyde in the
gonge. And that yere a quarter of whete was worthe xxiiij s. of
sterlyngys.

Wyllyam fiz Ricum,( Adam Brownenge 1 ^o xliiij'.

Mayre of London ij ?t°"xT ' .°^^*'^

) John Jsorthamton ) . ,

^""^ ( Eychardus Pykarde! ^°°° ^^"-

Thomas fiz Thomas, | Robertus Tayler I a o i -o

Mayre of London I RichardusWalbrokel

Ande that same yere be ganne the Baronys warre ayenne, and

durynge that werre there were many worthy lordys slayne. And

moche myschyffe and sorowe was that tyme in thys londe.

The same Thomas j Robertus Moimpelers | * o i "o

Mayre stylle I Obertus Sowtheworke j

Ande the same yere was Northamton towne takyn, ande many of

the men of the towne that were there yn were slaync, for they

hadde ordaynyd wylde fyre to have brente the citte of London.

The same Thomas j Gregorye Rokisle j * | ..-o

Mayre I Thomas Forthe j

And that yere was the batylle of Lewys, and then was the kjmge

and his sone takynne.

The same Thomas j Edwardus Blunte j a o r o

Maire of London I Petrus Armiger i

Ande the same yere was the bateUe of Evysham.

Anno Domini William fiz Ric, i John Lynde j a ^^

^^ ^' Majrre of London ( John Walrent j

And the same yere be ganne the Emperowre of Tarteryn for to

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reygne, that was callyd the Grete Cane. The yere of oure Lorde Hen. ni.

MI ^^ 1 •• A.D. 1267-72.

* CC IXVIJ.

Alein Sowthe, Gustos
of J>e citte of
London ij yere
to gedyr

Anno Ij**.

John Adrian
Lucas Batyngcort
WalterusHervy j ^^^^ j;.,
WyllyamDuryseynel
Ande the same yere Octobon, the Legate, hylde a conselle at Syn
Poulys at London.

Henricus fiz Thomas, j Thomas Bas)mge ; '|...o
Mayre of London I Robert Corinhylle j
Ande the same yere the xxrj day of Marche was ordeynyd by
the kynge and his consell that noo cyttezen of London shulde goo
owte of the cytte to mete with noo maner of vytayle comynge unto
the cytte, nothyr by londe nothyr by water, unto the tyme that
they come to the cytte, on payne of presonnement. The yere of oure
Lorde M* cc lidx.

Walterus Plotte
John Taylour
Gregory Rokysle
Henricus Waleys

John Bedell
Richardus Parys

John Adryan,
Mayre of London

I AMiiij%
A« Iv^

AMvf.

Syr Watjrr Hervy,
knyght, Mayre of
London

Ande that same yere dyde Kyng Harry the iij, and was beryd at
Westemyster.

Deus misereatur.

The namys of mayrys and sherevys yn the tyme of Kjmg Edw. I.
Edwarde the sone of Kyng Harry. The yere of owre Lorde ^'^' ^^^^^
M^ cc Ixxij.

Syr Water Hervy, i John Home
Mayre of London ( Water Potter
Ande that yere Lewynne, the Prynce of Walys, he rebellyd
a gayne Kynge Edwarde. And the k3mge scomfytyd hym in the

Anno primo.

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Edw. I. batayle and toke hym. And he gave hym grace, and he swore that

he shulde nevyr rebelle a yenste the kynge more aftjrr that tyme.

Henricus Waleys, i Nicholans Wynchester) a o ••©

Mayre of London I Henricus Covyntre '

Ande that yere the kyng grauntyd unto the Mayre of London for

to chastys bakers and myllers whenne they trespasse. That y s whenne

that bakers make there brede aftyr the whyte that ys ordaynyd

by the mayre and a sysyd, and the myllers for stelyng of come.

And that yere Lewys Prynce of Walys rebellyd a yenne, and was

take and scorn fyte. And yet the kynge gave hym grace the ij tyme.

Lucas Ratyncourte i a® "*<>

Henricus Frowyke i

John Home \ * ....o

j Anno nil".
Gregory Rokeley, I Kane Blount 1

Mayre of London Robert Aras | * ©

Raffe Feverrer j

JohnAdryan j ^^ -o

Water Englysche j

Ande that yere the corte was remevyd from Westmyster unto

Schrovysbury fro the feste of Saynt Mychelle un to Synt Hyllarys

daye nexte folowynge, and then remevid a yenne to Westemyster.

And that yere was the batelle of Evyshara the xiiij day of Auguste,

the yere of our Lorde M^ cc Ixxviij.*

Gregory Rokysley, { Robertus Basyng

Mayre of London I William Maserer ^ ""

Ande that yere the Kyng of Scotlond com unto \fe Parlyment of

Kyng Edwarde holdyn at Westemyster. And at the feste of Saynt

Martyn the same yere there were Jwys a reste for treson, and othir

certayne goldesmythys. And uppon the Monday next aftyr the

Epiphanye iij Crysten men, Englysche, and CC and iiij schore

Jewys, were drawe.and hangyd. And that yere was the chyrche

of Frere Prechourys in London be gonne.

* So in MS., though the battle of Evesham has already been noticed under its
true date in the 49th year of Ilenr)- III., a.d. 1265.

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Gregory Rokysle,
Mayre of London

Uenricu8 Waleys,
Mayre of London

vuj"

IX"

A^x^

Thomas Boxe
Raffe More

William Farindon \
Nicholaus Wynchesteri
William Maaerer
Ricardus Chikwelle
Ande in that yere the kyng segyd the towne and castelle of
Berwyke. And in short tyme he wanne hyt bothe the towne* and
the castelle with a sawte. And that tyme were slayne xxv M*
Scottys and viij c.

Harry Waleys, ( Raffe Blounte I a o •©

• Mayre of London ( Aukyn Betnell ) ^ "

Ande that yere was borne Edwarde of Carnarvyan. Ande that
yere Prynce Lewyn of Walls rebellyd a yenne }?e iij tyme a yenste
the kynge, and the kyng toke hym ande lette smy te of hys hedde
the ix daye of Feverer, the yere of oure Lorde a M* cc iiij schore
and iij.

Harry Waleys, ( Jordon Goodeschepe I a -o

Mayre of London ( Martyn Box *

And that yere was the grete condytte in Chepe made.

Gregory Rokyele, Majrre of London, unto the feste of Petyr
and Poulc; and thenne was he put downe and Raffe of
Sandewyche made Mayre of London tylle the Monday
aftyr the Puryfycacyon • of owre Lady nexte aftyr, ande
John Bryton chose Mayre of London to the feste of
Sayntt Margarete the nexte yere folowyng. Stephynne
Comehylle and Roberte Bokysby Sherevys that yere
folowyng. Anno xiij°.

William Blounte
John Wade
William Herforde
Thomas Stanys
Thomas Cros
Wylliam Hauten

Edw. I.
A.D. 1280-8.

Raffe Sandewyche,
Mayre of London

Anno xiiij**

Anno XV**.

Anno xyj®

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A.D^ '289:97. Wylliam Byton | ^, ^^.y,

John de Cantysbury 1
FuUo de Sancto .

Edmundo j A"* xviij''.

Salaman Lancastre '
Ande in thys yere alle the Jewys that dwellyd yn Englond were
exilyd and drevyn owte of the londe. Ande for to have that done
the Comyns of the Reme grauntyd to the kynge the xv parte of
. hyr mevabylle godys.

Thomas Romayne j ^^^ xix«.
W ylham de Lyre >

RaffeBlounte { Anno xx«>.

Hamonde Box j

Ande that yere the kyng presonyd Edwarde his sone of Carvar-
vyan. And aftyr he exilyd hym for dyvers traytours that he men-
taynyd a yenste the kyng hys fadyr.

Harry BeUe | ^nno xxj^

Elysse Ru8selle J
Ande the same yere, the morowe aftyr the feste of Saynt Bar-
nabe, thys Raffe Sondewyche was putt downe. And John Bryton
was made Wardyn of the citte of London.

■ John Brytton, ( f^^'* ^^^^f | A' xxij'.

Mayre of London Martyn Aumbre 1

or Wardon ?f "^ ^°^ i A' xxiij<>.

I Ric. Glowcester ]

Ande that same yere, the yere of cure Lorde M* CO Ixxx & xvij,

Kyng Edwarde toke the Castelle of Edyngborow, in Schotlonde.

And in that castelle he founde the regaylle of Schot londe, that ys

to wytte, the kyngjB see, hys croune of golde, and his septour, the

which regaylle the kyng offerde up to Saynt Edwarde schreyne at

Westmyster, the xvij day of June, &c.

John Bryton, i Thomas Sowthefolke I a© «

Mayre of London I Adam de FuUam '

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John Stroteforde

Wylliam Strateforde

£ic. Bosham

Thomas Tely

John Armenters

Herry Fyngrey

Lucas Haveiryng

Eic. Chaunpyn

Robert Caller

Petrus Besynhe

Hugo Pentre

Symon Parys

William Combermartyn

John Burforde

Bogerus Parysche

John Lincolne
Ande that yere "Wylliam Waleis, that was swome lige man to
the Kynge of Inglond, he made hym selfe Kynge of Schottys,
and rebellis a yenste the Kyng of Inglond. And he was take and
brought imto the Towre of London, and there -he was jugyd that he
schulde he * trawe, hangyd, and quartryd and hys bowyllis i-brente
before hym, &c.

Galfridus Conductu

Symon Bolete

Wylliam Cosyn

Baynolde Thundrylle
Ande the same yere deyde Kyng Edwarde Y friste, and ys beryd
at Westemyster the vij day of Juylle, that ys the yere of oure Lorde
M* CCC vij.

Henricus Waleys,
Mayre of London

Eleys Kusselle,
Mayre of London

.lohn Blounte,
Mayre of London

John Blounte,
Mayre a yenne.

" John Blounte,
Mayre of London

A"* xxig^.
A® xxxij^
A® xxxiij®

The same John
Blounte, Mayre

The same John
Blounte, Mayre

' xxxmj**

Anno xxxv"".

Edw. I.
AS). 1297-
1307.

The namys of Mayrys and of Sherevys of the cytte of London Edw. II.
in the tyme of Kyng Edwarde of Carnarvyan, that was crownyd *
the kalendys of Marche the yere of oure Lorde a fore sayde.

CAMD. SOC.

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A n*\?^ *^^^^ Blount, j Nicholaus Pycok \ a o ^^^^^

Mayre of London I Nygellus Drewry j
And that same yere the kjmg weddyd the kyngys doiighter of
Fraunce, dame Isabelle Phylyppe. And the same yere profecyde
the Chanon of Brydlyngton.

Nicholaus Faryndon, I William Basjmge j * ••©

Mayre of London f John Butteler i

Thomas Romayne, j Roger Pdmer | ^^^^ .^

Mayre of London » Jamys Edmunde )
Ande that yere the kyng lette to frem the Sherevys of London
and of Myddelle sex for cccc li of starlyngys by yere. AUe so the
same yere of oure Lorde Mcccx the ordyr of Templers were
dystroyde thorowe alle Crystyndom in on day, the whiche ordyr
be ganne the yere of oure Lorde M^ iiij schore & xviij. Alle so the
same yere be ganne the ordyr of Powlys, that ben callid Crowche
Frers.

Ricardus Bosham, | Symon Creppe j a^.^^ — •©

Mayre of London ' Pers Blackeney J
John Gysors, I Symon Merwoode J ^^^^^ ^o

Mayre of London f Ricardus Wylforde 1
Ande that yere was borne Kynge Edwarde the iij at Wyndsore,
the whiche was callyd Kyng Edwarde of Wyndesore.

John Kysors j Johm Lambin | ^^^^

Mayre of London ( Adam Litkyn )

Nicholaus Faryndon, ( Adam Burton | ^o ^j:©

Mayre of London I Hugo Grayton j

Ande that yere, the yere of our Lorde M* ccc xiiij, Kyng Edwarde
went to Schot londe whythe a ryalle power at the feste of the Natyvyte
of John the Baptyste. And the Shottys gaffe hym batayle and
dyscomfyte hym and slewe many of hys men. Ande the kjmge
fledde awaye.

John Kysors, | Stephyn Habyngdon \ * o — ©

Mayre of London I Hamonde Chikewelle j
And that yere ther was a fole that was callyd John Canne, and

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he claymyd to be Kjmg of Inglonde, sayng that he was the kyngys Edw. II.

sone, and, of negligens of his norys, wylle that he was yn hys

cradylle ther come a sowe into the howse, and alle to rent hym and

hys norys druste nott telle that, and toke a nothyr yong chylde

that was a water berrers chylde, in * kepte hyt in stede of hyt, and

put me in othir mennys kepyng for to norysche, and soo he was

dyssayvyd of hys kyngdome; and Edwarde take for kyng that was

the water bererrys chylde and namyd hym Edwarde, and to make

that knowe he shewyde clothys with bloode of hys hurtys. Alle so

he sayde that the maners of Kjmg Edwarde acordyd to the maners

of his fadyr the water berer. For in as moche he sayde that he

usyd early werkys of kjmde, and for suche sayyngys he was jugyd

false and was hangyd at Northe hampton. And yet sum men be

'levyn hys wordys.

Stephyn Habyngdon, | Hamon Goodeschepe I a <> ' <>
Mayre of London f William Bedynge 1

Ande that same yere, the yere of owre Lorde APcocxvj, on
Mydde Lent Sonday, the towne and the castelle of Berwyke was
loste by the treson of Perys of Spaldjmg that was keper of the
sayde castelle and towne. And alle soo the sayde yere grete derthe
of come thoroughe alle Inglonde, for a boschelle of wete was
worthe v s.

John Wengrame, j William Causton J * ^

Mayre of London I Ricardus Balaunser I

Ande that dyrthe duryd of come and vytayle that for hunger
pepyle yetyn houndys, cattys, and horse, for be fore there was grete
morayne of bestys of oxyn, kyne, and shippe.^

John Wengame, j John Pryoure J a o -o

Meyre of London ' William Fumeyse 1

And that yere the Schottys dyd moche harm in Inglonde with fyre.
Nycholaus Farindon, j William Proudham J ^o ^^jjo

Mayre of London I Baynolde at the Condyte *

• So in MS.

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A^ xiij^

John Poyntelle
John Darlynge

Ande in that yere Syr Thomas of Lancaster was be hedyd the
XX day of Aprylle, the yere of cure Lorde M^CCCxxj. And that
yere was the rysyng of erlys and baronnys of thys londe, and they
toke Syr Pers of Cavyrston, the kyngys sworne brother, and smote
of his hede. And sone aftyr the kyng dyd be hedde iiij schore
lordys in a day for the dethe of the sayde Pers, by oonselle of Syr
Hew Spenser.

Symon Hab3mgdon
John Preston
William Proudeham j
Bajrnolde at )>e Conditel

xuj**.

Anno xiiij**.

Hamond Chickewelle,

Mayre of London
Nicholaus Farindon,
Mayre of London
Hamonde Chyckewelle, I Rio. Constantyne
Mayre of London ' Ric. Habeneye
Ande the same yere there of oure Lorde M^ CCC xxij the sonne
was tumyd in to the coler of bloode, and duryd from the morne
tylle xj att the clocke in the laste day of October.
The same Chyckewelle, | John Grauntham

Anno XV®.

Mayre of London
Nicholaus Farindon,

Mayre of London
Hamond Chickewelle,

for a parte
Rycharde Betayne,

for a parte

xvj"

' xvij"

Annoxviij.

XIX"

Roger Ely

Adam Salusbury

John Oxjrnforde

Benet FuUam

John Cawston

Gybon Mordon

John of Coton
Ande that yere the Quene com a yenne 3m to Inglonde whythe
Edwarde hir sone by the helpe of the Erie of Henowde. And
that yere Mayster Watyr Stapylton, Byschoppe of Execeter ande
Tresourer of Inglonde, was be hedyd at the Standerde of Chepe.
Alle so the same yer the kyng was put in to the castelle of
Barkeley. And that yere by the assent of alle the lordys of thys
reame, spyrytualle and temporalle, and by alle the comyns of the
sayde reame, he resynyd, and Edwarde his sone, of Wyndsore, was

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crounyd at Westemyster at the age of xv yere. Ande that same Edw. n.
yere Syr Hewe Spenser the eldyr was take, and he was take and
drawe and hangyd at* quarteryd at Brystowe, and his hede sraete
of and sett uppe att Wynchester. And the same yere the kyng
by conselle of his modyr went into "Walys, and many lordys whithe
hym, and there he toke Syr Hewe Spenser the yonger in the
montaynys, and Mayster Robert Boldete, and moo othyr of hir
assent, and they ne wolde nevyr ete mete ne drynke aftyr that day.
And at Herforde they were drawe and hangyde and quartyrde
and behedyde, and Sir Hewe Spenser the yonger al so.

Here folowythe namys of Marys and Sherevys in the tyme of Ed. in.

AD 1327-8

Kynge Edwarde the iij, that was crownyd at the feste of the
Conversyon of Syn Poule. The yere of oure Lorde M^ccc and
xxvj at Wynchester, the yere of hys age xv.

Ryeardus Beteyne, ( Ric. Rotinger | ^^^^ .^^

Mayre of London I Roger Chaunceler I
Ande that yere, the yere of oure Lorde M^ ccc xxvj% were sene
in the firmament ij monys. And alle so that tyme there were two
Popys. And in that yere, the yj day of Marche, the kyng con-
fermyde the lyberteys and the franches of London. Ande he
grauntyd that the Mayre of London shulde be on of J>e Justysse
of Newgate; alle so he grauntyd that sherevehodys sholde goo to
ferme for ccc li. be yere, as hyt was yn olde t3rme. Ande alle so
the kyng grauntyde that the cytsynnys of London shulde not be
chargyd with no man that flede to holy chyrche, nor they shulde
not be constraynyde to goo owte of the cytte of London to noo
werre, but yf thaye wylle hem selfe. Also the kynge grauntyde
the same tyme that the lyberteys and franches of the cytte shulde
nott afiyr that tyme for noo cause [be] ^ takyn away in to the kyngys
honde. Al so that same tyme Southeworde * was [granted] to the
Sherevys of London for to have to ferme.

" So in MS. •* Omitted in MS.

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A^^n¥i^2. HamondeChyckewelle,j Harry Darcy ) ^o jjo

Mayre of London I John Hadden 5

Ande that same yere, the xxj day of September, Kyng Edwarde
the Secunde was slayn yn the castelle of Barkely by treson of Syr
Roger Mortymer. And that yere the kyng helde a Parlyment at
Notyngham. And in the fyrste yere of Kyage Edwarde the iij,
aftyr the feste of the Trynyte, the Schottys come in to Inglonde in
to the parke of Stanhope. And ther they were vyseryde for
knowynge, and storyd them with vytayle thorowe the treson of Sjrr
Roger Mortymer. And in the secund yere of Kyng Edwarde the
iij Davyd Brus^ Kyng of Schottys, weddyd Dame Jone, the
kyngys doughter of Inglonde, by oonselle of the sayde Mortymer.
And the kynge was govemyd alle to gedyr by the same Mortymer.
And by the counselle of the sayde Mortymer the kynge ma a
chartoure to the Schottys. And the tenoure of the chartoure ys
unknowe to Englysche men yet. And that same yere the kyng
weddyd Dame Phylyppe, the kyng ys doughter of Fraunce, the
Erlys doughter of Henowde.

John Grauntham, j Symon Fraimsces j a© -'o
Mayre of London I Harry Thonbyrmartyn j
And that yere the kyng wente into Fraunce to make omage to
the Kynge of Frauiice for the Duche of Gyene and for the Counte
of Pountyf.

Symon Swanne. i Bic. Lacer . ^^^^ ^^

Mayre of London ( Kic Gysers j

Ande that same yere the fiyste be gotyn sonne of Kynge Edwarde
the iij was borne at Wodestoke in the feste of Vite et Modeste.
And that yere Edmond of Woodestoke, Erie of Kent, was be hedyd
at Wjmchester.

John Putteney, ( Robert Ely j * «

Mayre of London I Thomas Harrewode '
And the same yere Edwarde BayloUe, the sone of John Baylolle,
sum tyme Kyng of Schottys, whythe home many lordys of Inglonde,
went with in to Schott londe. And at Dounfrymylyn they aryvyd

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faste uppe be the Abbey. And there ij M^ Engljrsche men scorn- *^^:i5 v
fytyd xl M* Schottys. And the same Syr Roger Mortymer was
hangyd uppon a comyn galowys of thevys of Synt Androwys eve,
the yere of oure Lorde M^ccc & xxx.

John Putteney, | John Mokkynge j j^^^^ -o

Mayre of London ' Androwe Awbrey '
Ande that yere the kyng layde sege to the towne and castelle of
Berwyke. And on Saynt Martyn ys evyn they come thedyr a
grete nombyr of Schottys for to have brokyn the sege. And the
kyng and his majme fought with hem, and slowe viij earlys and
M^CCC knyghtys and squyers of Schottys, and many fotte men; of Nota.
Englysche men were slayne but a knyghet, and a squyer, and xij
fotte men. Ande on Saynt Margaretys day the towne and the
castelle was i-yolde to the Kyng of Englonde.

John Preston, | Nicholaus Pyke j a -o

Mayre of London ' John Hosbonde i
In that yere the kyng slowe many Schottys, and wanne the
Castelle of Kylburge.

John Pounteney, | John Hamonde | ^^^^ ^.y,

Mayre of London ' Wylliam Uaunsarde)
Ande that same yere the kjmg of Schotlonde came to the Newe
Castelle uppon Tynde. And at the feste of Syn John the Baptyste
he dide omage unto oure Kyng of Inglonde. And the same yere
the Duke of Bretayne dyde omage to the kjrnge for* the Counte
of Begemounde,^ the yere of our Lorde M^cccxxxiij.

Eadulfe Cotymger, t John Kenton J a .

Mayre of London | Water Turke »

And that yere was grete dethe of men and morayne of bestys
and grete rayne. And that yere a quarter of whete was worthe xj
schelyngys.

The same Eadulfe i Water Mordon j ^^^^ ^^
Maire of London { fiicardus Upton '

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A^^Tsas^io -^^^® *h^* y^^^ *^® kywg went ovyr the Schottys see. And he ^

toke the Erie of Moryf and many othyr of the wylde Schottys, and
warryd apon the wylde Schottys and slowe many of them.

John Pounteney, | William Byrkyllysworthe j a o ^lO ^

Mayre of London ' John Northehale 1

And that same yere, in the mounthis of Junij and Julij, in dyvers
partys of hevyn apperyde the starre comate, id est a blasyng sterre.
And that yere was grete plenty of vytayle, and a quarter whete
was at ij s. at London, and a fat oxe for vj s. viij d., and yj pejonys .

for a peny; nevjrrtheles ther was grete scharsyte of mony that
tyme. Al so that yere deyde Syr John of Eltham. Alle so the .

kyng grauntyd that yere that the sargentys of the mayre and J

sherevys schulde here by fore them macys of sylver and ovyr gylte "j

with the kyngys armys in that one ende and the armys of London
in that othyr ende. j

Harry Darcy. i W*^**' Nel« j Anno xij». 1

Mayre of London ( Nicholaus Grene )
Ande that yere the kyng made of the Counte of Cornewale a ♦'

duchye, and gave hy t too Edwarde hys eldyste sone with the
Erledome of Weste Chester.

The same Harry . I William Pountefrete j a ...^

Mayre of London ( Hew Marberer j

Ande that yere the kyng and the quene saylyde yn to Brabayne. j

Nota partus And in the towne of Andeworpe the quene chyldyd Syr Lyonelle.
Lyoneli. And that yere the kyng made fryste clayme unto the crowne of
Fraunce yn Braban.

Androw Awbry, i William Thomey j . o — -o

Mayre of London ( Roger Forsham j ^

Ande that yere the kyng helde a Parlement at Weste myster. *

And he askyd to be gynne hys warrys the v parte of the mevabylle
goodys of Inglonde, and the costome of the wollys, and ix sheffe of
every come, and hyt was grauntyd hym. And that yere J>* kyng
changyd hys armys. And that same yere the kynge made the
coyne of the nobylle, halfe nobylle, and farthynge. j

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The same Androwe, j Adam Lucas j a ^^ ^^o /^^{ISla

Mayre of London ( Bartholow Mareys i
Ande that yere the kyng fought in the Swyn whythe Fraynysche
men at Scluse. And there were slayne of Fraynysche men xxx
thoughesaund. And they toke CCC and x grete shippys. And the
same yere the kynge be ganne the seege [of] * Turney, and the towne •
of Saynte Amandys was destroyde. And that yere the kynge come .
home a yenne in to Inglonde a Synt Androwe ys evyn, and come
by the nyght in to the Towre of London. And he toke many
lordys and put hem in preson. And al so the same xv yere was
the fyrste yere of his rayne of the kyngdome of Fraunce, )>e yere of
oure Lorde M* ccc and xl.

John Oxynforde, a \

parte of the yere ^.^^^^^^ ^^^^

Symon Fraunches, , , ^ , ,/ Anno xvj .

a parte of J?e yere,
Mayres of London

John Rokysle

Symon Fraunches. j John Lowkyn I Annoxvijo.

Mayre of London ' Ricardus Kylhngbury )
Ande that same yere was the grete tumement att Dunstapille of
alle the chyvalry of Inglonde ande of gentellys. AUe so that same
yere there was a grete erthe quake.

John Hamonde | John Sywarde j ^^^^ ^^.j^.

Mayre of London ' John Aylsham I

Ande that yere the kyng at a Parlement at Westemyster he
made Edwarde hys yldyste sone Prynce of Walys.

The same John Hamonde, | Geffiray Wychyngham J ^^^^^ ^^j^^o

Mayre of London I Thomas Leggy )

Ande that yere the kyng be ganne the Rounde Tabylle at the
castelle of Wyndesore, that ys for to saye, pe ordyr of the Knyghtys
of the Gartyr.

Ricardus Lacer, f Edmounde Hemnale I * ^ ^

Mayre of London I John Glouceter J

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Edw. in. And that yere the kyng saylyd to Bretayne and in too Gyene,

and come a yenne the same yere.

Geflfrey Wichyngham,f John Coydon \ A *<>

Mayre of London I Wylliam Clopton J
And the same yere the kyng wentte unto Normandye. And the
xij day of Juylle the kyng faught whythe the Normandys at the
Brygge of Cadona, and there was take the Erie of Eue, the Lorde
of Tankyrvyle, and c. knyghtys, and men of arms vij c, and many of
the comyns of Normandy were slayne. The yere of grace M^ CCC &
xlyj. And the same yere there went owte a maundement fro the
Emperowe of Tartery into alle his londe that every man schuld
usjm what lawe and beleve that he wolde soo that he worschippe
noo ydoUis but only every lyvyng God. Al so the same yere of
oure Lorde M^ CCC xlvj was the batelle of Cresse, the xxj day of
August. Tn the same batelle was slayne the Eynge of Beme, the
Duke of Lorayne, the Erie of Launson, the Erie of Flaundrys, the
Erie of Bloys, the Lorde Arcourte, the Lorde Almarle, the Erie of
Maners, and many othir baronys and knyghtys the nombyr of xv c
and xlij. And King Philippe of Fraunce fledde. And theiij
day of September next folowyng be ganne the sege of Calys, and
that contynuyd unto the iij day of Auguste next sewyng. And al
so the same yere the Kyng of Schotlonde, Davyd, was take at the
batelle of Dyrham the laste day of October; and he was ramsomyd .
at c M^ marke for to pay hyt in x yere.

Thomas Legge, ( Adam Bramson X ao -o

Mayre of London I Ricardns Basyngstoke i
Ande that yere, duryd the sege of Caleys, Kjmge Phylyppe of
Fraunce come downe the xxvij day of Juylle whythe a grete hoste,
and purposyd for to have remevyd the sege; and proferde batelle
to Kyng Edwarde, Kyng of Inglonde, and a sygnyd the day a place.
And the Kyng of Inglonde acceptyd hit whjrthe a gladde chere.
And Kyng Philippe,* and Kynge Phyljrppe,* knewe that he

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wolde kepe his day, cind he brent his tentys by nyght, and went Edw. m.

hys waye cowardely; and the pepylle in to the towne sejmg noo

comfort of rescuse, the yelde the towne to the kynge whythe the

castelle. And at Myhelmas nexte folowynge the kyng come unto

Inglonde.

John Lowkyn, f Hany Pykarde 1 ^^^^ ^.-o

Mayre of London I Symon Dolsle J

Ande that yere wa[s] a gretemorther of pepylle, and pryncepally

a mong the Sarsonys that un nethe ther lefte the x. man on lyve.

Alle so that same yere hit raynyd the moste parte from Mydsomer

unto the feste of Crystys masse nexte sewjmge aftyr.

Wylliam Turke, ( Adam Bury 1 *

{. -_' ^ ^ ^ -r } Anno xxnii*.

Mayre of London ( £ane Lynne J

Ande that yere was the grete pestelance at London, and thorowe

alle Inglonde, and duryd from the feste of Synt Michelle unto

the monythe of Auguste next folowyng, the yere of cure Lorde

M* CCC xlix.

Ricardus Kilbngbury,* ( John Notte 1 A® ^

Mayre of London I William Worceter i

Ande that yere the kyng faught whythe Spajmardys uppon the

see by syde Wynchelsee, and slewe many of them, & toke many

vessellys of hem.

Andrew Awbry, ( John Wrothe 1 ^o xxvi**

Mayre of London I Gybon Stejrndrope J

And that yere, the yere of oure Lorde M^ ccc and lij, the kjmg

made newe mony, that ys for to saye grotys ande j d of two pensse,

the whiche was lasse by vs. in the pounde thenne olde sterlyng

was.

Adam Fraunaey^ f John Pecche . ^„„^ ^^j„

Mayre of London t John Stodyd J

Ande that yere was a grete dyrthe of come ande of alle manor

of vjrtayle in somer lyme. And that was callyd the dyre somen

And that yere was a grette drought that laste fro the begynnynge

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A^^idbe, ^^ Marche unto the laste ende of the monythe of Juyll, the yere
of oure Lorde M^cccliiij.

The same Adam ( John Wolde ) * ..-o

Mayre of London i John Lytylle J

And the same yere, at a Parlement at Westemyster, the Erie of
Lanchaster, Harry, was made Duke of Lancaster^ the fyrste Duke
that was made at Lancaster.

Thomas Legge, f Wylliam Totnaham \ ao -^

Mayre of London I Ricardus Smarte 3
And that yere Kyng Edwarde and Kyng Philippe of Fraunce
were sworne to kepe pesse. And the Kyng of Inglonde schulde
have in pesse, with owte omage doynge, alle the londys of Gyan,
Nota bene. Aungoye, and Normandye, and alle that longyd to hym by hys
herytage. Al so that yere the kyng remevyd the stapellys of the
wollys owte of Flaundrys in to dyvers placys of Inglonde, that was
to Westemyster, Cantyrbury, Chychester, Brystowe, Lyncolne, and
Hulle, the yere of oure Lordc M* ccc Iv.

Symoh Fraunseys, f Thomas Brandon ) a© o
Mayre of London I Thomas Foster )
Ande that yere dyde the Kyng of Fraunce, Phylippe, and John
his yldyste sone was crounyde. Ande the same yere Kyng Edwarde
wente to Calysse and so forthe unto Fraunce to mete whithe Kyng
John that un goodely hadde broke the pesse. And whenne Kyng
John wyste that the Kyng of Inglonde was come he with drowe -
hym and made his pepylle to cary a way alle maner of vy tayle, that
Kyng Edwarde shulde have no maner of freschynge for hys mayne.
Al so the same yere the Schottys wanne the towne of Berwyke a
yenne, but nought the castelle, for hyt was kepte with Englysche
men. And that yere was grauntyd unto the kynge )?e costomc of
the wollys, xl schelyngys of sacke for |>e tyme of vj yere folowynge.
Harry Pykarde, f Ricardus Notyngham i * ^ -o

Mayre of London I Thomas Dolsell j

Ande that yere Syr BayloUe, Kyng of Schotlonde, gave up the
croune of Schotlonde unto Kynge Edwarde at Rokysborowe, and

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the towne of Barwyke was delyveryd a yenne unto the Kjmg of Edw. in,

Inglonde. Also the same yere ofoure Lorde M^ccclvj, the xxix

day of Septembre, was Kyng John of Fraunce takyn at the basteyle

of Peyters, and Syr Philippe his sone with hym, the Erie of Pountyf,

the Erie of Eue, J>e Erie of Longevyle, the Erie Tankyrvyle, and

viij erlys moo, and iij byschoppys. And there were slayne the

Duke of Burbone, the Duke of Docens,* Constabylle of Fraunce,

and the Byschoppe of Chalons, and many moo grete lordys. And

the were M* M* viij** personys, of the whyche were M^ M* knyghtys

and squyers; ande the Dolfjm fledde. And this batylle dyd Edwarde

Prynce of Walys.

John Stodey, ( Sthevyn Cauwndysche 1 a

Mayre of London 1 Bartholomewe Frostyng j

Ande that yere the kyng cam home and brought with hym the
Kyng of Fraunce whythe alle hys presoners of lordys and knyghtys,
and thys was the xxiiij day of May that they come to London
and so to Westmyster. And that yere were ryalle justys in
Smethefylde, there beyng iij kynges, the Kyng of Englond^ the
Kyng of Fraunce, ande the Kyng of Schotlonde, and many othyr
dyvers lordys of othyr londys.

John Lowkyn, C John Bemes ) * ...<,

Mayre of London I John Burys J -

Ande that yere the kyng hylde hys feste ryally of Syn Gorge at
Wjmdesore, and ther was the Kyng of Fraunce and the Kyng of
Schottys.

Symon Donfylde,. f Symon Radyngton | ^nno xxxiiij^.
Mayre of London \ John Chichester J

Ande that same ye [re], the xiiij kalendys of Juylle, Sir John
of Gaunte, Erie of Richemounde, weddyd Dame Blanche. Alle so
the same yere Kyng Edwarde saylyd in to Fraunce, by cause that
Charlys Regaynt of Fraunce hadde movyd and steryd warre a gayne
the Kynge of Inglonde. And the same yere of oure Lorde M* ccc Ix.
ande the xiiij day of Aprylle, the mome aftyr Estyr daye that yere,
• The Due d'Athdnes or Duke of Athens.

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A^'^'aea.'i *^® ^7^S^ ^^*^ ^ys hoste lay aboute Parys. And that day was a
Blacke Mon- ^^"'® derke day of myste, rayne, and hayle, and soo bytter colde that
daye,qixare sic men dyde for colde, where fore yet in to thys day hyt ys i-callyd
Blacke Monday next aftyr Estyr day.

John Wrothe, f John Deynys 1 ^^^^ ^^^^o.

Mayre of London I Water Bemey '

Ande that yere were rovers apon the see undyr the governayle
of the Erie of Syn Poule. And the fyrste day of Marche they
dystryde the Rye and Hastynge ande many moo townys by the
see syde, and slowe many menne. And that yere the pesse was
made by twyne Kynge Edwarde and Kyng John of Fraunce, the
X day of May. The Kyng of Inglond sende hys bassetours to take
the othe of the Regayunt of Fraunce, Charlys, the whiche othe was
doo undyr this forme: Charlys dyd do syng a masse solempny;
and whenne that Agnus Dei was thryesse i-sayde layde his ryght
honde uppon the patent, were uppo lay Goddys owne precyus body,
and his lyfte londe on the Masse Boke, sayng on thys wyse, "We
sweryng uppon this holy precyus Goddys body, and uppon the
Ewangelys, fermly and trewly to holdyn and mentayne pesse and
Concorde by twyne us two kynges, and in no maner for to do the
contrarye in no maner wyse." And that same yere men, bestys, treys,
and howsys were smyght fervently with lytthenyge, and sodenly
i-peryschyde. And they fonde* in mennys lyckenys splatt men
goyng in the waye.

John Pecche, f Wylliam Holbeche ) ao ut

Mayre of London I Jamys Tame i

Ande that same yere, uppon the kalende of Julij, ther fylle a
blody skynne ^ in Burgayne, and a bloody crosse apperyd in the ayre
from the mome unto myd day, the whyche crosse aftyr mevyd and

• they fonde. The Chronicle in Vit. A. xvi. reads " the Fend.*' The Chronicle
pabliahed by Nicolas sajs, *< And the deyell in mannes lyknes spak to men goynge
be the weye."

k ikynne, Eyidently a transcriber's error. Harl. 666 has " a blody reyne," and
so other authorities.

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fylle doun into the see. Al so that yere Prjmce EHwarde weddyd a^^V^V
the Countasse of Eentt. And the same yere was the secande
pestylence, in the whiche Syr Harry, Duke of Lancaster, deyde
ynne, and Syr John Erie of Rychemounde was made Duke of
Lancaster. And that yere be-ganne the grete company in to
Fraunc^. Ande the grete wynde, the yere of oure Lorde M* ccc Ixj.
Sthcvyn Caundische, f John of Synt Albonysl a © -o

Mayre of London I Jamys Androwe )

Ande that yere Syr Lyonelle, the kyug ys sone, was made Duke
of Clarence, and Syr Edmounde of Wodestoke was made Erie of
Chambryge, the yere of oure Lorde W CCC Ixij.

John Notte, f Ric. Croydon } ^^^^ ^^^^jj..

Mayre of London i John Hyltotle )
And that yere ther come iij kyngys in to Inglond for too speke
with Kyng Edwarde; that ys to say, the Kjrng of Fraunce, the
Kjmg of Schottys, and the Kyng of Sjrprys.

Adam de Bury, | Symon Mordon | ^^^^ ^^.^,

Mayre of London v John de Metforde J
And the same yere the same Adam was mayre unto the xxviij
day of Janyver. And thenne John Lowkynchosynn mayre. And
that yere was the batelle of Orrey in Bretayne. And the same yere
deyde Kyng John of Fraunce in the Savey be-syde Westmyster.
And that yere was a grete froste, and duryd (ro the feste of Synt
Androwe tylle the xiiij day of Feverere next folowynge.

John Lowkyn, t John Brykylysworthe ) a ^^0 xl«

Mayre of London 1 John Irlande i

Ande the same [yere]* Edwarde, the fyrste sone of Prjmce Edwarde,
was borne on the vij kaind of Feverer. And at that age of vij yere
he endyd his lyffe. AUe soo the same yere was grete batelle of
sparowys in dyvers placys of Inglonde, where the bodys were founde
dede in the feldys with-owte nombyr. Al so the same yere men and
bestys were grettely infectyd with pockys, wher fore they dyde, bothe
men and bestys.

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Mayre of London ^ W ylhain Dykman )
And the same y [e]re Rycharde, the sone of Prynce Edwarde, was
borne in Burdox, the yere of our Lorde MPccclxiiij.

Jamys Androwe, ( John Corgolde | Anno xlii''

Mayre of London I Wylliara Dykman j
And that yere, the yere of oure Lorde M*ccclxviij, in the
monythe of Marche, apperyd S[t]ella comata, ydest, a blasyn sterre.
And that yere was the batelle of Nezers* in Spayne, and there
Prynce Edward scoinfyte the Bastarde of Spayne,** and restoryd
Kyng Petyr into hys realme a yenne, that was put owte by the
sayde Bastarde. And there was take the Erie of Dene, Syr Olyvyr
Claykjm, and many mo knygtys and squyers, by syde fronkelaynys.
Syraon Mordon, f Adam Wynb3mgham) * ,...^

Mayre of London I Robert Gyrdeler i
Ande that yere Syr Lyonelle Duke of Clarence saylyd ovyr the
see unto Meleyne, and at the feste of the Natyvyte of oure Lady he
dyde. Ande the same yere dyde Dame Blanche, and she ys beryd
att Syn Poulys at London. And that yere was the thyrde pesty-
launce.

John Chichester, f John Pyelle | . ,....^

Mayre of London l^ Hewe Holbeche ) *

Ande that same yere a buschelle of whete was worthe xld.
And that yere dyde Queue Phylyppe, the yere of oure Lorde
M^CCClxix.

John Bernes, , f William Wal worthe) * o i o

Mayre of London I Roberte Grayton J
Ande that yere the Duke of Lancaster saylyd ovyr the see and
roode thorowe Fraunce, and Syr John Hawkewode floryschyde in
Lombardy. And that same yere the prynce come home a yenne
owt of Spayne in to Inglonde. And he lefte by hynde hym in
Gascoyne the Duke of Lancaster and the Erie of Cambryge.

• Najara. ** Henry of Trastamai^.

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John Bernis, f Kobet Hatfylde -i a i -o ^^- ^^•

T^f r T J { A J o 1 > -A^nno xlvj^ A.D. 1372-6.

Mayr of London I Adam Staple J

Ande that yere the Chaunceler and the Tresyrer of Inglonde were

put downe of hir office; and they were byschoppys bothe; and the

prevy seele and secular lordy« were putt in the same offyce.

John Pyell, | John Philpote ) ^o xlvij<».

Mayre of London I Nicholaus Brembre J

Ande that yere was John Northewode slayne on the Blacke hethe

at a wrastelynge, wherefore there rosse moche dyssencyon a mong

certayne craftys of the citte. Al so the same yere the Duke of

Lancaster and the Erie of Cambryge com home in to Inglonde owt

of Gascoyne. And the same yere the duke weddyd the doughter

of Kyng Petyr of Spayne. AUe so the same yere there were ij

cardenellys sent fro the Pope for to trete for the pesse of ij realmys

of Inglonde and of Fraunce. And that yere ther was a batylle

on the see by twyne Englysche men and Flemmyngys, and xxv

shyppys ladyn with baye salte were take from the Flemmyngys.

And that yere the Erie of Penbroke was take on the see with

Spaynardys on Synt Johnys Even the Baptyste.

Adam de Bury, | John Awbry | ^o xlviij*'.

Mayre of London I John Fefiyde i

And that yere the Duke of Lancaster saylyd in to Flaundrys

and paste by Parys by Burgayne, and atte Fraunce unto Burdox

with owte any with stondyng. Al so the same yere Alysaundyr

Nevyle was made Archebyschoppe of Cantyrbury, and Thomas

Arundelle was made Bischoppe of Ely, and*Mayster Harry Wake-

fylde Byschoppe of Worceter.

Wylliam Waworthe, f Richardus Leyonys 1 a o ^j^o

Mayre of London I Wylliam Wodhous i

Ande the same yere the towne of Bryggys in Flaundrys tredyd

of dyvers artyculys be twyne the Pope and Kyng Edwarde. And

that yere was tretyde pesse by twyne Inglonde and Fraunce.

John W^rde, C John Hadley } ^o p

Mayre of London 1 William Newporte j

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Edw. III. Ande that yere Edwarde the Lorde Spencer dyde and is buryd

A.D. 1376-7. .tTeukysbury.

Adam Stapille, f John Northehampton 1 a „ j.^

Mayre of London I Robert Launde J

Ande that same yere the sayde Adam was mayre tylle unto
the xxj day of Marche, and thenne was he put downe, and
Nota. Nicholaus Brembre chosse mayre, and toke his othe at the Towre

of London.

And the same yere on Trenyte Sonday deyde Prynce Edwarde
at Westmyster, and his body buryd at Cantyrbury.

Nicholaus Brembre, ( Andrew Pickeman 1 * o \::o
Mayre of London I Nicholaus Twyforde)
Ande that yere was grauntyde unto the kyng that every person,
man and woman, that was of xiiij yere of age and more shulde*
paye to the kynge iiij d., and every man of hooly Chyrche xij d.
that was a vaunsyd man, and that othyr J?at were not a vaunsyd
iiij d. Freers were only owt takynn. And that same yere
Richarde, the sone of Prynce Edward, was made Prynce of Valys.
And that same yere the Oardynalle of Inglonde was smyte with a
palsey, and loste hys speche. And on Mary Magdelene ys day he
dyde. And the same yere the xij Jovis Aprylys, Syr John Mjm-
styrwode, knyght, was beheddyd. And that same yere, the xij
kaulendys of Julij, deyde Kynge Edwarde at Shene, and ys buryd
at Westmyster, the yere of oure Lorde M^ ccc Ixxvij.

AD^"iS77 8 ^^^ namys of mayrys ande sherevys in the tyme of Kynge
Richarde the Secunde, that was crownyde the xvij kalend' of the
monythe of Auguste, the yere of our Lorde M^ccclxxvij.
Nicholaus Brembre, f Andrew Pyckeman ) ao -o

Mayre of London I Nicholaus Twyforde)
John Phylpott, ( John Bosham -i A^ "'

Mayre of London I Thomas Corwaleys J

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Ande that yere Roberde Rawde* was slayne in the chyrche of ^ D^ms-si
Wystemyster the yere of oure Lorde M' ccc Ixxviij.

John Hadle, ^ | John Hylsdon -i j^^^^ jj.^^

Mayre of London I William Baret j

And that same yere there cam galeyys of warre to Gravysende
and brente a grete quantyte of the towne. And that yere [was]^
on Kirkeby hangyd, W. Baret the sheryve.

Wylb'am Walworthe, I Water Dogete j * ....^

Mayre of London t William Knyghtketei

Ande that yere, the yere of oure Lorde a IP ccc ande iiij schore,
uppon a Corpuscrysty day, cum many dyvers pepylle owt of Kentt
and owte of Esex unto J?e cytte of London, and brent the great
maner and place of Sayey in Flete Strete and a parte of the bowse
of Syn Johnys at Clerkyn welle be syde Smethefylde, and drewe
downe the maner of Hybery. And on the morowe aftyr they went
unto the Towre of London and fette owte the Archebyschoppe of
Cantyrbury, and the Pryor ot Syn Johnys, and Freer William
Apilton a Fryer Mynor, and they smote of her heddys at the Towre
Hylle. And Richard Lyonys and many moo of the Flemmyngys
were by-heddyd in dyvers placys of London. And at Synt
Edmonde ys Bury they be-heddyd the Pryur of Bury and Syr
Symonde Caundische, Cheffe Justyse of Inglonde, and many moo
of othyr pepylle. And thys was callyd " the hurlyng tyme." And
that tyme was Syr Wylliam Walworthe made a knyght in Smethe
Fyllde for that he slowe the chefteyn of hem the whiche that were
rysers, that was called Jacke Strawe. And there were made moo
knyghtes that there namys folowyn here : Syr Nicholaus Brembre,
John Philpotte, Roberd Launde, and Syr Nicholaus Twyforde.
And this was callyd ''the hurlyng tyme."

John Rotte,

John Northehampton,
Mayre of London

John Hende,
Shcrevys

I

Anno V*

* Robert Hawle, or Haolej, according to all other authorities.
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aW^iS'^ Ande that yere come Quene Anne unto Inglonde and was

weddyd unto Kyng Kycharde. Ande that yere was the erthe quake,
the yere of oure Lorde a M^cociiij schore and ij, the xxj day of
Maye.

John Northehamton, I Adam Warame i j.^ -o
Mayre of London \ John Sely j

And that yere went the Byschoppe of Norwyche unto Flaundrys;
and the xxv day of Maye the Flemmyngys gaffe hyra batayle faste
by Dunkyrke, and there were slayne xj M^ Flemmyngys.

Symon Wynchecombe^ ao ••o

John More J

Nicholas Exton J Anno viij».

Nicholaus Brembre,
Mayre of London

John Frosche

John Organ ^ ^o ^^o^

^ John Chyrcheman j

And that yere Kyng Kycharde went unto Schotlande. And there

were i-made ij dukys, the [Duke] " of Glouceter and the Duke of

Yorke. And the Erie of Oxynforde was made Markys of Devylyn.

Ande the same yere the Erie of Arundelle faught uppon the see

a-pon oure Lady day in Lent whjrthe the Flemmyngys, and he

hadde the better of hem, and he toke many shippys. There was a

shippe i-callyd Mewys Colman, in the whiche schippe was the

Amyrelle of Fraunce and many moo ^ gentellys. Also that same

yere the Duke of Lancaster whythe hys wyffe Dame Constaunce

saylyd yn to Spayne for to chalenge his herytage that was hys

wyrys ryght.

Nicholaus Exton, c Wylliam Venour l * -o

__ nr \ ^xTTii/. f Anno xj.

Mayre of London I Hewe Fastolfe J

Ande that yere was a gaderyug of lordys, but of certay ne, as Syr

Thomas Woodestoke Duke of Glouceter, Syr Harry Erie of Derby,

Syr Richarde the Erie of Arundelle, and Syr Thomas Erie of

Warwyke, and Syr Thomas Erie of Nothyngham, the whyche

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appechyd Robert Devyr, Erie of Oxynforde, whom Kynge Ric. n.
Rycliarde liadde made fyrste Markys of Dorsett and aftyr Duke ^'^' 1387-91.
of Yrlond, and he fledde into Yrlonde, and also he fledde into
Lovejme in Braban and there he deyde. Al-so Syr Mychelle of Pole,
the Erie of Sowghtfolke, fledde into the same place, and there he
dyde. And S3nr Alysaundyr Nevyle fledde into Schotlonde, that
was that tyme Archebyschoppe of Yorke, and S3nr Robert Tre-
vylyon, Cheffe Justys of Inglond, and Syr Nycholle Brembr,
knyght, were drawe and hangyd, and Syr John Bechampe, and
Sir Jamys Bemers, and Syr Symon of Bevyrley were be-heddyd
at the Towre Hylle. And Syr John of Salusbury was drawe and
hangyd, and Robert Belknappe, John Holte, John Gray, Wylliam
Borughe, Robert Folthorpe and John Lokton, Justyse, were exylyd
into Yrlond, there for to abyde and dwelle alle ther lyvys.

Nicholaus Twyford, r Thomas Aust3m 1 a o ••o

Mayre of London X Adam Carlylle J
Wylliam Venour, ( John Walkote | j^^^^ ^j.^^

Mayre of London 1 John Loveye j

Ande that yere were grete justys of warre in Smethefylde in the
monythe of May by-twyne the Erie of Nothyngham and the Erie
of Morycke, Schottys, and the Lorde Wellys and Davyd of Lyndesay,
Schottys, and Syr Nycholle and John Browne, Schottys.

Adam Bamme ( John Fraunseys 1 a o ^j'jo

Mayre of London I Thomas Vy vente J
And that yere the goode man at the sygne at the Cocke in Chepe
at the Ljrtyll Condyte was mortheryd in hys bedde be nyght, and
therefore hys wyffe was brente, and iiij of hys men were hangyd at
the Tybome.

John Hynde, f Harry Vanner 1 * o ^ o

Mayre of London I John Schadworthe i
Ande that yere the majnre and bothe * sherevys were dyschargyde
of ther ofiycys by-fore the feste of Synne John the Baptyste at
Notyngham. And Syr Edwarde Dalyngryge, knyght, was made

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A D**^i392-4 w^^^y^ by tb^ ^y^g^, unto the fyrste day of Jule, the yere of the
raygne of the kyng xvj the begynnynge. And thenne was Syr
Bawdewyn Radington, knyght, i-made Wardyn and Gustos of
London unto Syn Symons day and Jude. Thenne by J?® lyscensse
of the kynge the cytte chosse a newe Mayre of London, anno xvj,
non sherevys.

Wylliam Stawnden. ( ^y^""" Mawfylde . ^. ^^..., j ^

Thenne he was chosse I^r'".?^"!?. ' S

Mayre of London. S? ^^awfylde , ^. ^^jjj. . ^

Thomas Neuton

Ande that yere was made a grette translacyon of byschoppys in
thys realme. Syr Thomas Aryndylle, Archebyschoppe of Yorke, was
made Chaunceler of Inglonge,^ and Wylliam, the Byschoppe of
Salysbury, was made Tresyrer of Inglonde, whos servandys of the
sayde tresyrer raysyd a grete debate and dyscensyon in the citte of
London, tiiat was in Flette Strete, for an hors i-lost, where fore the
tresurer complaynyd unto the kyng uppon the cytte, thorowe
whiche informacyon and procuryng of the tresurer the kyng dyd
sesyn the franches ande J?® lybertcys of London fro them, and
remevyde the courte unto Yorke fro the feste of Syn John J?®
Baptyste unto Crystysmas next folowynge.

John Hadle, r Ric. Wedyngton | ^o ^^^jjo c

Mayre of London t Drewe Barentyne J

Ande that yere, the vij day of June, the yere of our Lorde
M^ ccciiij^ schore and xiiij, Quene Anne at Schene dyde, and ys

■ These figures are erroneous. William Stawnden was elected major in the
»iwteenth year according to what has just been stated in the text ; and both he and
the two sheriffs, whose names are given opposite, held office for one jear only. This
error has disturbed the numeration of the years which follow in the MS., which,
however, we have corrected in the text.

» So in MS.

* From the 17th to the 21st year of this reign each year is wrongly numbered in
the MS., except the 18th, which, strangely enough, is given correctly. Thus the 17th
is numbered xixS the 19th xxj'*, the 20th xxij**, and the 2l8t xxiij**. The 22nd is
numbered correctly, notwithstanding that it follows the year numbered xxiij**.

* " Tiij schore,'* MS. which of course is an error.

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beryd at Westemjrster. And that same yere, at Mychelmas, Kyng S^^Vq?; 7
Rycharde went fyrste unto Yrlonde.

John Frossche, r Wylliam Brampton 1 ^o — o

Mayre of London X Thomas Knollys j

And thys yere the kyng come unto Yrlond.

Wylliam More, ( Roger Eleys | ^o ^.j^o a

Mayre of London I Wylliam Shyrynghami
Ande that yere, at the feste of Alle Halowe tyde, the k3mg
weddyd Dame Isabelle the kyngys doughter of Fraunce at Calys,
and the vij daye of Janyver nexte she was crownyde at Weste-
myster. And at hyr comynge to London the Pryor of Typtre, in
Essex, and vij mo personys of men and wemmen were thruste to
dethe a-pon London Brygge in the grete presse, for ther was a
fulle grete prece in that same tyme.

Adam Bamme, ( Thomas Wylforde \ Ao o a

Mayre of London t Wylliam Parker J

Ande that same Adem Bamme majnr stylle tylle the vj day of
Junij, and thenne he dyde. Ande Richarde Wedjmton was chosse
for the resydewe of the yere. And the xviij day of the same
monythe waste the Duke of Glouceter a-reste.

Rychardus Wedyngton, J John Woodecocke \ \o -oa
Mayre of London 1 William Asckeham J
Ande the same yere, the nexte Sonday aftyr the Translacyon of
Syn Thomas *> of Cantyrbury, that was viij day of Juylle, the kyng
commaundyd alle hys mayne for to mete with hym at the Mylys
Ende; and so they dede. And thenne he roode forthe unto Plasche;
and there he restyd the Duke of Glouceter erly in the momynge,
and the Duke of Arundelle, and the Erie of Warwyke, and the
Lorde E. Cobham, and Syr John Cheyne; alle theswere a restyde
the same tyme, and the Duke of Glouceter was sende unto Calys in
to preson ; ande at Saynt Bartholomewe ys tyde nexte aftyr the
Erie Marchelle was sende unto Calys to hym. And on the morne

* See note « on page 94.

*» Syn Thomas. These words are struck through with the pen by a later hand.

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Ric. n. hyt was Sonday, and that daye men sayde that he [die]de,* but
Gode wote howe, but dede he was. On the mome aftyr Hooly
Rode day, the kyng made a grete justysse be-syde Kyng ys towne
uppe Temys ; and on the Sonday aftyr the Erie of Derby helde
his feste in John Roetis Place, in Flet Strete. And the xxj
day of September be-ganne the Parlement at Westemyster. And
there was made a grete hale in the palysse, and* there ynne the
Parlyment was holde. And that day the knyghtys of the shyre
were i-chosyn, ande sherevys chosyn hyr Speker, wyche name
was Syr John Buschey; and every man was commaundyd for
to leve his bowe and his arowys at home in hys inne. And
on the nexte day was the Parlement playnely be-gunne. And
on the Wanysday nexte aftyr was askyd as for J?e clargy a
procter for to speke for hem in the Parlyment, for they myght
nought be in that place there as jugement shulde be gevyn
for treson of felony. And thenne they chosynne Syr Thomas
Percy, and so schulde they have for hym a proctoure in the Par-
lyment for evyr more for poyntys of tresoune and felony. And
the Fryday aftyr was the E[r]le of Arundelle att hys aunswere ;
and that day was geve juggement on hym, that he shulde be
drawe, hanggyd, ande i-quarteryd, and be-heddyd. But at the
prayer of lordys the kyng relessyd hym, and commaundyd that he
shulde be ladde thorowe London unto the Towre Hylle firom Weste-
myster, and there hys hedde to be smytte of. And so hit was. And
thenne wag the body ande the hedde borne unto fryer Austynnys,
and then hit was byryde. And on the Fryday next aftjrr was Syr
Thomas Mortymer jugyd unto the same dethe that the Erie hadde,
but that he com yn whythe yn yj monythys. And the Sonday
hylde the Duke of liancaster hys feste in the byschoppys place of
Durham. And the Monday aftyr was the Lorde Cobham accusyd.
And the Thursday aftyr helde the lordys a Prevye Conselle; and
on the morne aftyr was the Erie of Warwyke at hys answere, and

* The beginning of this word is defaced and illegible.

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was juggyd unto the same dethe jugement that the Erie of Arun- Ric. n.
delle hadde, but he submyttyd hym so louly unto the kyngys
grace and to his plesaunce, that the kyng gaffe hym grace and
lyffe, and sende hym unto the Towre a-yenne. And the Satyrday
was the Parlyment enjomyde unto Shrouysbury. And that day
there were made v dukys and a duches, and a markes, and iiij
erlys, the whiche namys folowyn aftyr here: Syr Harry Erie of
Derby made Duke of Herforde, Edwarde Erie of Rutlonde Duke
of Arundylle, Thomas the Erie Marchelle made Duke of Northe-
folke, Syr John Holand Duke of Exceter, and the Erie of Kentte
made Duke of Surreye. And the Countesse of Northefolke i-made
Duches of Northefolke, the Erie of Somersett Markys of Dorsett,
the Lorde Spencer i-made Erie of Glouceter, the Lorde Nevyle
i-made Erie of Westemorelonde, Syr Thomas Percy Erie i-made
the Erie of Worceter, and Syr Wylliam Schroppe i-made Erie of
Wyldschyre. Ande the Sonday aftyr helde the k3mge hys feste,
and the Monday was the torment of the Lorde Moumbrey at the
Whytte Freerys in y cytte of London ys subbarbys. And every
nyght durynge the Parlyment the kyng was wacchyde, on lorde
with his mayny one nyght, and anothyr lorde anothyr nyghte,
duryng alle the Parlyment. And that same yere the kyng * and the
Duke of Herford, and the Duke of Northefolke, shulde have foughte
at Covyntre; but whenne that they were ensemblyd in the place
afore the kynge, ande he toke hit uppon hys juggement, and a non
in the same place they were bothe exylyde, but Harry Duke of
Herforde but for x yere, and the Duke of Northefolke for a hun-
dryd wynter.

Alle so the same yere Thomas Aroundelle the Arche Byschoppe
of Cantyrbury was exylyde, and Syr Robert Waldon was made
Arche Byschoppe of Cauntyrbury. And thenne the kyng,
thoroughe wyckyd consayle, deseneyreyd* the heyrys of the

* We ought certainly to read <* And that same year of the king, the Dnke of
Hereford and the Dnke of Norfolk," dec.
** i.e. disinherited.
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Ric. II. lordys that were exilyde and done to dethe be fore tyme. And
thenne he sende unto Rome to have the stetutys and the ordy-
naunce made in the Parlyment that was begunne at Westemyster
and i-endyd at Shrouysbury confermyde' by the Poope;^ hyt was
donne ande gmuntyd by the Poope,^ and by hym conformyd, the
whiche was pronounsyd at Powlys Crosse and at Synt Mary
Spetylle by fforne and in audyence of pepylle. AUe so the kyng
thorowe conselle that was not goode he hadde the cytte of London
and many othyr cytteys and townys in grette hate and in indygna-
cyon, and were endytyd as for rfebellys; and he toke hym to
Cheschyre men, Y whiche were most famulyer with hym, wherefore
the cytesynnys of London and- the pepille of the sayde townys and
schyrys endytyd, as hit ys i-sayde by fore, were fuUe hevy and in
grete hevynes of herte. Where fore the sayde cy ttesynnys of Lon-
don in plesauns of the kynge and by conselle and helpe of Syr
Roger Walden, Archebischoppe of Cauntyrbury, ande Syr Robert
Baybroke, Byschoppe of London, putte a supplicacion unto the
kyng, of whyche the tenoure folowyth.

To oure * excellent ryght dowtfulle soverayne and fulle gracyus
lorde the kynge.* Fulle mekely and lowly besekynge,® youre
humble legys, spyrytualle and temporalle, the Archebyschoppe
of Caimtyrbury ande the Byschoppe of London, mayre, sherevjrs,
and aldyrmen, with alle othyr spyrytualle and temporalle lordys
and gentelys, and comyners of youre citte of London. And'
for as moche and * fulle grette and sorowfulle malyce, trespassys,

• confemyde, MS.

^ The word <* Pope " is smeared throngh with a pen in these places.

^ yowrCy MS., which is cert&inlj- an error. This petition is given more accurately
in the Chronicle in Jnlins B. i., which we refer to in the footnotes following by the
letter J. There is another copy in Vitell. A. xtL, which we refer to as V.; but it,
also, is yery corrupt

' Onr MS. here nms on as if the sentence were continued.

* bisechen, J.

' And. J. reads " that," continuing the sentence.
' and. as, J.

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and wyckyd conjecturp » have ben procuryd, don, and evyl don ^^^^J
toyoure royalle mageste, the** grete and perpetualle confusion and
repreffe to the sayde evylle doers, and grette vylony and shame
of alle the dwellynge with yn the sayde cytte, as welle innocentys
as knowynge thereof* as of othyr; [which]* wyckyd doers, for
the* trespas have deservyd harde and wyckyd' chastemente and
punyschement, ne were ]?« hye ben3mgnyte of youre * doutheftdle
lorde, fiillefyUyd whithe alle grace, wyUe nought precede ayenste
them afiyr hyr desertys, whyche yf ye shulde agayne them
procedyn hit shulde ben hyr dystruccyon, and nott with owte
cause, of grette multitude of youre pepylle whithe owt nombre.
Pies hit to youre excellent and doughtfulle ryalle mageste gracjrusly
to consydyr the grette repentaunce of youre mysdoers, ande hyre
benynge desyre that they have to aske mercy, ande to redresse
hem to alle maner of reformynge hem aftyr hyr power, as
moche as hyt may ben in any wysse possyble, here exces, folys,
and defeutys abovyn sayde. And of the abundaunte wylle ^ of
grace were of the Almyghty Kynge, exempler of alle marcy
and grace, [where of] ' hathe indeuyd you, to receyve hem to youre
mercy ande grace, and hoolye for to forgevyn alle the malefesourys
or evylle doers of hem dwellynge in the same cytte, because of hem
have trespaisyd to youre ryalle excellente mageste before sayde.
And youre humbylle legys wylle submythem ^ to doen, beryn, and
a-boye^ alle maner of thjmge that shalle in any maner plesyn
the same youre royalle mageste. And ovyr that youre humbylle
legys wylle submyt them, and besekyn that they may ben ressayvyd
to grace, by Eoger Walden, Byschoppe of Cauntyrbury, Syr

% eofyeeturyi. Conjectoracions of somme men, and of many eril doen of the aeid
cite, J.
^ the, to, J. « there of, they of, MS.; thereof, J.

^ Omitted in MS. J. reads <' which malfaisonrs or eril doers."
« the, J. reads "here," i. e, their. ' wyohfd, lither, J.

» youre, you onre, J. *• mylle. welle, J.

* where of. Not in J., and clearly superfluous.

* So written as one word. ' a-hoye, obeie, J.

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Ric 11. Roberd [Braybroke] * Byschoppe of London, Rycbarde Wedyng-
ton, Mayre of London, &c., sufficiantly enformyd, and havyng
fill ande ^ sufiycyente auctoryte and pouer for [al] ^ youre humble
legys of the sayde cytte, and in hyr name to sweryn and trewly
for to holdyu, kepe, and observe, lejm,^ and mentayne, with
alle hyr power, whythe owte firaude or maligne,® alle the statutys,
stabylmentys, and jugementys don and yevyn in youre hye Par-
lyment, be gunne at Westemyster the Monday nexte aftyr the feste
of the Exaltacyon of the Hooly Crosse, the yere of youre gracyous
raygne xxj, and fro thens endyde at' Schrouysbury unto the
quHJnsyn of Synt Hyllarye thenne nexte folow3mge, and there
termynyd ande endyd; and alle othyr statutys, ordynauncys, and
stabilymentys sythe hyder to done and madyn with owttyn evyr
to comyn, don, [or] ^ procure anything there a-yenne in any
maner, to that ende that they shalle mowe ben putt thorowe
youre grace owt of alle suspecyon, ande to [ben] 8 holdyn as they
deservyn^ above alle thynge youre trewe Icgys for the love of God
and the werke of charite. In wyttenys of this thynge, and for the
thjmgys above sayde, welle and trewly to holdyn, kepynne, observe,
and mentayne for alle dayes whythe [al] * hyr power in the maner
as hy t ys a-bove sayde, whythe owte evyr to done or procure * the
contrarye, to ly vyn ande dyy n youre sayde humbyll legys, of whom
here namys severally ben undyr wrytynge, as welle for them selfe as
in the name of the resydewe of the same cytte to thys supplycacyon
have sette hir selys, that ys to say, we Roger Walden, by the grace of
Gode Archebyschoppe of Cauntyrbury, Prymate of alle Inglonde,
Robart Baybroke Byschoppe of London, and Richard Wedyngton,

* Supplied from J. and V.

*> itffficiantly^ful ande. These words are supplied from J., being omitted both
in onr MS. and V. In the former the words foUowing, yiz., "suffycyente anctoryte,"
are absurdly made to begin a new paragraph.

' Supplied from J. ** lowefif J.; loven, V.

* malengyne, J. and V. ' ended at. ajoumed to, J.
» Supplied from J. *• desiren, J.

' Supplied from J. ■» proeitre. proceme, MS.; procure, J. and V.

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Majrre of London, Wylliam Askeham, John Woodecocke, Scherevys Ric. n.
of London, the cytte forsayde, &c. And then anon, aftyr the pre-
sentacyon of the . sayde supplycacion, there were made many
blanke chartours, and alle \f^ men of any crafte in the citte, as
welle servauntys as maysterys, were chargyd for to come to the
Yelde halle to sette hyr selys to the sayde blanke chartours. And
soo they dyd also for the moste parte of Inglond, and no man
wyste what hyt mente.

Drewe Baryntyne, ( John Wade 1 ..o a

Mayre of London I John Warner J

Ande that same yere Thomas Aryndelle, the sone and ayre of
the Erie of Arundelle, whiche J?at aftyr the dethe of hys fadyr was
dwellyng in howshold with Syr John of Holon, Duke of Exceter,
and holde at non reputacyon but in grete repreffe and dyspyte
and moche dysseysse, prevely thorowe helpe of Wylliam Schotte,
mercer of London, in a gromys wede he saylyd ovyr y see and
came unto h3rs onkylle, the Archebyschope of Cauntyrbury, that
was that tyme in Coleyne. Al so the same yere dyde Syr John
Gaunte, Duke of Lanchaster, and ys beryd at Poulys at London.
And that yere Kjmg Ry chard saylyd the secunde tyme in to
Yrlonde sone aftyr Estyr. And he hadde with hym Harry, the
eldyste [son]e of the Dukys of Herford, the whiche Harry was
made knyght in Irlonde. And in the begynnjmg of xxiij yere
of the raygne Harry, Duke of Lancaster, that was exilyd whithe
the Archebyschoppe of Cantyrbury and hys owne sone Thomas,
and the sone of the Erie of Arundelle, londyd in the northe centre
at a place callyde Rajmspouer be-syde Weldynton, to whom there
come hastely Syr Harry Percy of Northehumbyrlonde, and Harry
Percy hys sone, and many othyr lordys, and thenne the Duke of
Lancaster whithe alle oth3rr lordys went strayt unto Brystowe, and
there they fonde Syr Wylliam Schroppe, Treserer of Inglond, and
Syr John Busche, and Syr John Grene, the whiche were brought
by fore the Duke of York, that t)rme beynge Levtenaunte of
Inglonde, and there they were be heddyd. And thenne was Syr

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Ric. II.
A.D. 1399.

Hen. IV.
A.D. 1399-
1400.

John Solake a-restyd at Westemyster, the dene of the kyngys
chapylle, and putte in preson in Luddegate, and othir certayne
monkys of the Ablbey of Westemyster were a-restyd al so. And
the same yere were a-restyd Syr Wylliam Baggot, knyght,
in Irlonde, faste by Deuel3m, and he was brought unto London
and putte in preson in Newgate. And that same yere was
Moraunte, fyschemanger, i-slayne at Synt Mary at the Hylle be-syde
Byllyngysgate.

Thes benne the namys of M ayrys and of Sherevys of the cytte of
London in the tyme of Kyng Harry the iiij that was crownyd
at Westemyster the xiij day of October, the yere of. oure Lorde
M^ CCC Ixxxxix.

Thoma KnoUys, f William Waldeme | ^^^^ .^^^

Mayre of London I Wylliam Hyde J
Ande that same yere, a-non aftyr Crystysse masse, was be-heddyd
at Sussetyr the Erie of Eentt, and the Erie of Saulysbury, and
the Erie oi Oxynforde, and Syr Thomas Blounte, and Syr Raffe
Lumney, Syr Benet Cely, knyghtys, and Syr Thomas W3nityr8ylle,
sqwyer; also Syr John Holand, Erie of Huntjmgdone, was beheddyd
at Playsche in Exsex, and the Lord Spenser was be-heddyd at
Brystowe;* and a-non aftyr dyde Kyng Rychard and was beryd at
Langley. And that same yere Syr Bamarde Brokers was heddyd
at Tybume, and Syr Thomas Celley, knyght, and Mawdleyn ande
Ferby, clerkys, were drawyn and hangyd at Tybume. And that
same yere the kynge roode in to Schotlonde. And there he** be-ganne
the werre at Walys by Gw3m Glandowre, squyer, ayenste the Kyng
of Liglonde, Harry the iiij, &c.

John Fraunseys, ( John Wackeley 1 a „j.q ::o

Mayre of London ( John Obete J

* The Chronicle in VitelL A. zTi. has a corioos variation here. Instead of the
foregoing clause it reads : ''And Sir John Holand, Dnke of Excestre, was take in
Essex atte Pntelwelle in a mille, and he was beheded atte Bristowe."

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Ande that yere a quarter of whete was worthe xyj s. The secunde .^f": fj;,
yere. And thenne that yere Syr Wylliam Sawtre, preste, was brente
jrnne Smethefylde for eresy.

And that yere, the xiij day of September, the yere of oure Lorde
IPcccc and ij, was the batylle at Halydon Hylle, at the whyche
batylle was takynne the Erie Douglas, the * Erie of Fyfe, and many
moo othyr knyghtys and squyers.

John Schadworthe, f William Fremyngham -i Anno iii®
Mayre of London I William Venoure,jimyor J

Ande that same yere was Dame Jone, Duches of Bretayne,
i-weddyd to Kyng Harry the iiij. Also thys yere there was a
sterre that was callyd Comata, idest a blasyug sterre, and he shewyd
in the weste, and he duryd v wekys and more. Al so the same
yere the Priour of Launde and Syr Roger of Claryngdone,* knyght,
and hys men, were drawe and hanggyd, and viij Freers Minors
why the them, at Tybume, and Syr Roger Walden, the byschoppe,
and Rychard Clydrowe were i-quytte by a queste of men of London.
Ande that yere was the batyle at Humbyldon Hylle.

John Walkotte, c Richardus Merlowe i a ^^^ jjj:o

Majrre of London \ Robert Chycheley J

And that yere, the yere of our Lorde M^ cccc iiij, was the batylle
of Shrouysbury, that was uppon Mary Mawdelyn Evyn, in the
whyche bataylle Syr Harry Percy was sayle,* and Thomas Percy was
i-takjmne and kept iij dayes aftyr, and thenne he was drawe, hanggyd,
quarteryd, and be-heddyd; and the quarters was sende one unto
London Brygge. And in the same bataylle was the Prynce shotte
thorowe the hedde with an arowe, and the Erie of StaflTorde was
i-slajme in the kyngys cote armure undyr his baner, and many mo
lordys and knyghtes lost there lyvys, and squyers and many a
goode yemon. For hit was one of the wyrste bataylys that evyr
came to Inglonde, and unkyndyst, for there was the fadyr a-yenst

• the, ther, MS.

» Claryng done, MS., the last two syllables being disjoined.

« iayle. So in MS., but the reading ought certainly to have been 9laxn.

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Hen. IV. the sone and the sone ayenste the fadyr, and brother and cos)m
a-yenste eche othyr.

William Askam, j Thomas Faukener 1 Anno v**

Mayre of London I Thomas PoUe 3

And that yere Serle, that was one of thoo that mortheryd
the Duke of Glouceter at Calys, was takyn in the Marche of
Schotlond, and was brought unto London, and was hangyd at
Tybume,

John Hynde, c William Lowthe ^ Anno vi**

Mayre of London | Stevyn Spylman j
Ande that yere Syr Thomas the kyngys sone was Amerelle of
the See, and he wente unto Flaundrys and brent bothe in Cachante
and in Flaundrys, ande londyd at Scluse and gaffe there to a
stronge sawte. AUe so he toke carrekys of Jene and brought
them unto Wynchylse, and they were brent thorowe mysse gover-
naunce and moche of the goode ther ynne. Alle so the same yere
Syr Eichard Schroppe, Archebyschoppe of Yorke, and the Lorde
Mombray, were be-heddyd at Yorke.

John Woodecocke, f Wylliam Crowmer 1 ao "o
Mayre of London I Harry Barton J

Ande that yere alle the werys bjrtwyne London and Mydway
were drawe downe by the conselle of the kynge and of the mayre
of London, and of the comyns of the same cytte, for they dyd
moche harme in the ryver of Themys, for they dystroyed moche
yonge frye, for the pepylle gaffe hit hir hoggys, and soo uncomely
devouryd hyt.

Eychard Wytyngdon, f Nicholaus Wotton \ \o •••o
Mayre of London I Geffiray Booke * J
Ande that yere the Erie of Kent weddyd the Erlys doughter of
Mylayne, at Synt Mary Overeys in Sowtheworke, the xiiij day of
Juylle. And that yere deyd Sjrr Eobert Knollys, and ys byryd at
the Whytte Freers at London.

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Wylliam Stawndon, ( Harry Pomfrett | j^^^^ j^o^ A.a im-io.
Mayre of Ix>ndon I Harry Halton J

Ande that yere the Erie of Northehumberlond ande the Lorde
Bardoffe were take in the Northe countre ande be-heddyd and
quarteryd; and the hedde of the erle and the quartyr of the lorde
were brought unto Londyn Brygge. And that yere was a grete
froste, and that duryd xxv wekys and more. Alio so the same yere
the Erie of Kentt was slayne at the castelle of Bryake why the a stone.
Drewe Barentyne, i William Norton ^ jko o
Mayre of London I Thomas Duke '

Ande that yere was the grette playe at Skynners Welle in
London. Ande that yere there were grete justys in Smethefylde
by twyne the Erie of Somei-sett and the Synyschalle of Henowde,
and Syr John Corwayle and Syr Eycharde of Arundelle, and the
sone of Syr John Chenye, and othyr Fraynysche men dede the
dedys of armys there.

Richardus Merlowe, t John Lane I A® '^

Mayre of London ( Wylliam Checheleyl

And that yere ther was an heretyke, that was callyd John of
Badby, that be-levyd nought in the Sacrament of the Auter, and he
was brought unt[o] Smethefylde for to be brent, and bownde unto a
stake; and Syr Harry Percy* of Walys conselyd hym to holde the
very ryght beleve of Hooly Chyrche, and he shulde faylle nothyr
lacke noo goode. Al so the Chaunceler of Oxynford, on Mayster
Corteney, informyd hym in the faythe of Holy Chyrche, and the
Pryour of Syn Bartholomewys brought the hooly sacrament with
xij torchys and brought hjt before hym. And hyt was askyd
howe that he be-levyde. Ande he answeryd and sayde that he
wyste welle that hit was hooly brede, and nought Goodys oune
blessyde body. And thenne was the tonne putt ovyr hym ande
fyre put unto hym; and whenne he felde fyre he cryde marcy.
And a-non the prynce commaundyd to take a wey the fyre, and
hit was don soo anon. And then the prynce askyd hym yf that

• Percy. A clerical error. " Harry Prince of Wales '* is the reading in other
Chronicles.

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^en. IV. he wolde for-sake hys heresy and be-leve on the faythe of alle Hooly
Chyrche, and he wolde gyffe hjm hys lyffe and goode i-nowe
whyle he levyd ; but he wolde nought, but contynuyde forthe in
hys heresye. And thenne the prynce commaundyd hym up to be
brende at onys, and soo he was. And John Gylott, vynter, he made
ij wevers to be take, the whyche folowyd the same waye of heresy.
'^ And the same tyme was the hurlynge in Estechepe by the lorde
Thomas and the lorde John, the kyngys sone, &c,

Y f Hereticus credat ne* perustus ab orbe recedat;

I Ne fides *^ ledat [Satel] ^ hunc baratro sibi predat.
Thomas Knollys, r Thomas Pyke i a o j.\\o

Mayre of London ] Thomas Penne J

Ande that same yere there com inbassetours to the kynge firom
the Duke of Burgeyne for to have men sowdyd whithe hym ayenst
the Duke of Orlyauns, but the kynge wolde not graunte hym non.
And they spake unto the prynce, and he sende thedyr the Erie of
Arundelle and Syr John Oldecastelle, Lorde of Cobham, and many
mo knygtys and squyers of thys londe.

Eobert Checheley, . r John Eaynewelle ") a o «:;jo
Mayre of London t William Cotton J

And that yere, the xij day of October, the yere of cure Lord
M^CCCC and xj, ther was in Temys iij flodys in oo day. And
that yere the Lorde Thomas, the kyngys sone, was made Duke of
Clarence, and that yere there com inbassetours fro the Duke of
Orlyaunce imto the kyng for to wage men ayenst the Duke of
Burgayne, and y kyng sende thedyr the Duke of Clarence and
othyr certayne lordys; and at the feste of Synt Laurence they
londyd at Hoggys. And the same yere the kyng let make to be
smetyn newe nowblys, but they were of lasse wyght thenne was
the olde nobylle by the paysse of an halpeny wyght, soo that a

• ne, ye in MS., struck out and corrected into " ne.*'

i> fides. So in onr MS. and in Harl. 666. J. letidB fidos, which of conrse is better
grammar. Fabjan hssfidem.

« Satelf i. e, Satan. The word is omitted in onr MS., bat occurs in all the similar
MS. Chronicles, and in the first two editions of Fabjan.

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nobylle shuld wey but iiij d. and halfe a peny, and that 1. nowblys Hen. iv.
shulde make a pounde of Troye wyght. ^^' 1412-18.

Wylliam Waldeme, f Raffe Lubnaham 1 . © — -o
Mayre of London 1 William Sevenok J

Ande that same yere the kyng dyde at Westerayster, the xx day
of Marche, the yere of oure Lorde M^CCCO and xij; and he ys
byryde at Cauntyrbury be-syde the schryne. And that same yere
Syr John Olde Castelle was a restyde at Wynsore and sende to the
Toure of London for poyntys of heresy that he was accusyd of;
and at the Frere Prechourys he was examnyd by fore alle the
clargy of thys realme, spyritualle and temporalle and relygyous,
and he was sent unto the Toure a-yenne; and sone aflyr he brake
owt of the Towre and wentte in to Walys; and aftyr he was take
ayen by the Lorde Powes in the tyme of Bychard Merlowe, as ye
shalle hyre aftjrr.

Waldeme, mayor, the same xiiij yere of his* fadjrr and the fyrste
yere of the sone, ande thys ys rekynde but for oone yere.

Thes ben the namys of Mayrys of London and of the Sherevys Hen. V.
of the same for-sayde cytte in the tyme of Kyng Harry the v, that 1413-16.
was crownyd the ix day of Aprylle at Westemyster, the yere of
oure Lorde M^ccccxiij. And hyt was apon Passyon Sonday,
and that was a fulle wete day of rayne.

William Waldeme, f Raffe Lubnaham ^ Anno primo
Majrre of London \ William Sevenok J
Ande that yere the kyng made to be brought the bonys of Kyng
Bychard to Westemyster, and they were beryd and put in his owne
sepulture, that he let make hym selfe with Queue Anne his wyfe.
^ J>is was the laste yere ^ of raygne of the fadyr, and the fyrste yere
of the raygne of the sone, Kyng Harry the v.

William Crowmer, ( John Sutton \ ^j^j^^ j:o^

Mayre of London | John Nichole )

« So in MS.

^ The words between ^^ie repeated in the MS.

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A^n°i4i'fi Ande that same yere, on the Twelfe the nyght, were a-restyd

certayne personys, called LoUers, atte the sygne of the Ax, whithe
owte Byschoppe ys gate, the whychc LoUers hadde caste to have
made a mommynge at Eltham, and undyr coloure of the mommynge
to have dystryte the kyng and Hooly Chyrche. And they hadde
ordaynyde to have hadde the fylde be-syde Syn Gylys. But,
thonkyd be God Almyghty, owre kyng hadde wamyng thereof,
and he come unto London and toke the felde be syde Syn Jonys
in Clerkynwelle; and as they come the kyng toke them, and many
othyr. And there was a knyght take that was namy[d] Syr Eoger
of Acton, and he was drawe and hanggyd be syde Syn Gyly, for
the kynge let to be made iiij payre of galowys, the whiche that
were i-callyd the LoUers galowys. Al so a preste that hyght Syr
John Bevyrlay, and a squyer that hyght John Browne of Olde-
casteUys, they were hanggyd ; and many moo were hanggyd and
brent, to the nomber of xxxviij personys and moo. And that yere
was Tebayne Breste,^ a preste, slayne in London by a squyer that was
callyd Yownser and hys men; wherefore the same Yownser with iij
of his men for-swore the lond. And that yere was the Parlyment
at Layceter.

Thomas Faukener, ( John MicheU 1 Anno iii*'

Mayre of London j Thomas Aleyne J
Ande that same yere was brent in Smethefild John Claydon,
schynner, and Rychard Turmyn, baker, for heresye that they were
convycte a-pon. Al so the same yere the kyng toke his jomay and
wagyd** in to Normandy; and the xv day of Juny the kyng roode
thorowe London ® whithe sherevys, aldermen, and alle the comeners
brought the kynge at Blacke Hethe; and there the majrre ande alle
hys aldermen with alle the comyns toke there leve of y kjmge, and

• His name is giyen as Maister "John Tybbay, clerk," in Harl. 666. It is

** Tykey, preest,'* in Vit. A. xvi.
*» So in MS., but apparently a transcriber's error for ** yiagyd."
" So in MS. ; but doubtless we should supply here, as the beginning of a new

sentence, " And the mayor."

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the kyng bade the mayre goo home and kepe welle hys chambyr in .^°:X;.

hys absens, and [yave hym] • Crptysee blessyng and hys, and he

sayde " Cryste save London." And he roode forthe hys way tylle he

cam to Hampton, and there he raosteryd hys mayne. And there

were certayne personys that had caste to slayne cure kynge, but God

that knewe alle trougthe, he sonde wamynge to oure kyng; and hys

enmys,the whiche namys folowythe aftyr, Syr Richarde Camborowe,^

Erie of Cambryge, Syr Harry, Lorde Scrope, ande Syr Thomas Gray,

knyght, with moo of hyr assent, J?* whiche personys were a-restyde

and put in the preson, ande do to dethe. And the xij day of

Auguste the kjmg saylyd towarde Arflewe, whythe M* M^ sperys

and moo; and the xvj day of the same monythe he londyd at

Kytkawys, and the Satyrday he leyde sege unto the towne of

Arflewe, and that was the Satyrday nexte aftyr of the Assompsyon

of oure Lady; and the sege contynuyd unto the Sonday nexte be

fore the feste of Synt Mychelle, on the whiche Sonday the towne

of Arflewe was delyveryd uppe to the kyng, that was xxij day

of Septembre. But hit ys to wyte that the Tewysday before,

that ys to saye the xvj day of the same monythe, at xij of

the clocke whytheynne nyght, the lordys that were the capyta3mys

and govemowrys of the towne, that ys to wete the Lorde Gawcorte,®

the Lorde Tutvyle, and moo othyr lordys, sende owte herodys

of armys unto the Duke of Clarens, prayng hym at the reverens

of God that he wolde of hys hyghe lordeschippe that he wolde

graunte them lyve and leve for to trete whythe what personys

tha't the kyng wolde a-sygne unto hem ; and the kyng at the

reverens of God and at hyre requeste he assygnyde the Duke of

Exceter, the Lorde Fehewe, and Syr Thomas Erpyngham, to hyre

whatt they wolde say and desyre. And they desyryd that the kyng

wolde nought warre on them fro that oure of mydnyght unto the

Sonday nexte aftyr the feste of Synt Mychell, and but hyt were

■ Omitted in onr MS., but sapplied from Vit A. xvi.

^ Camborame. Conysborughe in Vit.

* Saweorte in oar MS. by a misreading; Gawconrte in Vit.

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A^^i^'s r^^^^i ^y batayle by that day by the Frenysche kyng or by the
Dolfynne, ellys at that daye to delyver the towne unto the kynge,
and they to have hyr lyvys and hyr goodys. Ande the kyng sende
hem worde yf that they wolde delivery the towne on the mome
aftyr, be the oure of mydnyght a bove sayde, with owte any con-
dyscyon, he wolde accepte hyt, and in non othyr wyse he bade hem
for to trete. Ande yette the Fraynysche lordys prayde our lordys
that they wolde fochesave to be-seche the kynge at the reverens of
God and of oure Lady that he wolde graunte them respyte fro
the same Twysday at nyght unto the Sonday nexte aflyr tylle one
owre aftyr none; and in the mayne tyme the lordys that were
captajmys of the towne to come to the kynge whithe xxiiij
knyghtys and squyers with hem, of the moste su%cyent men
whithe in the towne, and they to be swome on Goddys body
opynly before alle the pepylle. But yf • hit soo were that the
Fraynysche kynge or the Dolfynne rescwyde hem by that Sonday
by the owre of none^ othyr ellys a-non aftyr none, they for to
delyvery the towne to the kyng and alle hyr bodys and goodys
to don whythe hem what so hem evyr lyste, whythe ^ any condiscyon.
Whythe that the kynge sufferde hem to sende unto Frauns viij
personys owte of the towne lettyng hym wytte in what plytte
that they stode yn, and the kyng grauntyd hem; and uppe the
Wanysday by y mone the' lordys come owte, and xxij knyghtys
and squyers whjrthe hem ; and thenne come the prosessyon solempny
and stately, whithe xxmj copys of clothe of golde by-fore Goddys
body, whythe many worschipfulle lordys, knyhtis, and squyers,
and othjrr multytude of pepylle from y kyngys tente, solempny
and stately as evyr was done suche a thyng be-for tyme. But the
kyng was nott here present. And the Franysche lordys made thare
hyr othys a-pon the sacrament; and, the othys done, the Fraynysche
lordys were brought unto the kyngys tente, and there they dynyd
in the kyngys halle, but in alle thys tyme they sawe nought the
kynge. And whanne that they hadde etyn they departyd and
• But if, %, e, nnleas. *» whythe. withonte, Vit

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delyveryd to sartayne for to kepe yn ostage tylle the Sonday on Hen. V.
none, as hyt was a cordyment i-made before tyme whenne that
they toke hyr othys. And the Sonday at the same owre a-signyd
the kyng hadde a tente phyght a-pone a hylle be-fore the towne,
and there he sate in his estate, ryally, and alle hys lordys aboute
hym. And thenne come the Fraynysche lordys, with Ixiiij whythe
hem of the moste suffycyentt men that were whythe yn the towne,
to the kyngys owne propjrr person, and delyveryd uppe the keyes
of the towne and hyr boodys and hji goodys to the kynges grace,
whithe owte any condyscyon. And thys was the xxij day of
Septembre, the yere of our Lorde W cocc xv. And thenne sone
afiyr the kynge and hys mayne ostyde from thens xxj dayes thorowe
the realme of Fraunce towarde Caleys. And the Fraynysche
men hyrde telle of his comjmg that way^ and they brake the
bryggya there that the kyng shulde passe oyyr, and in so moche
that* he myght not passe noo way but he moste nedys mete
with the Fraynysche oste. And a-pon the Fryday, that ys to saye,
the day of Syn Cryspyn and Cryspynyany, alle the ryalle pouer of
Fraunce come by-fore oure kynge and hys lytylle blessyd mayne.
And thenne they sawe the Dolfynne whythe alle the lordys of
France were by-fore oure good kynge enbatellyd in iij batellys the
nomber of iij schore M^ men of armys. And that was the fayryste
syght of armyde men that evyr any man saye in any place. And
the kyng sawe he myght not passe whythe out batayle, and thenne
he sayde unto hys lytylle mayne, ** Serys and felowys, yendyr maynye
wylle lette us of oure waye, and they wylle not come unto us.
But nowe lette every man preve hym-selfe a goode man thys day
and a-vance hys baner in the beste tyme of the day and yere.
Ande the kyng roode ande hys basnet in hys hede, and alle othjrr
men wente on hyr foote a-passe in hjrr hoole araye and^ Englysche
myle or that they assemblyde. And thorowe Goddys grace the
kynge made hys way thoroughe the thyckyste of alle the batayle;
and ther was slayne on the kyngys sjde the Duke of Yorke, the
• that repeated in MS. «» So in MS.

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Hen. V. Erie Southeffolke, and ij knyghtys, and Davy Gam, and of the
gentylle men no moo, and of alle maner of Englysche men hyt
passyd not xxviij personys. And on the Fraynysche syde was
slayne the Duke of Launsonne, the Duke of Barre, the Duke of
Braban, ande vij erlys, and the Constabylle of Fraunce, and the
Senschalle of Henowde, and the Mayster Alblester,* and many
moo lordys, and knygtys and squyers v M^ and moo. And
there was take the Duke of Orlyaunce, the Duke of Burbon,
the Counte of Rychemounde, and the Counte of Ewe, |?® Marchalle
of Fraunsce, Syr Bursegaunte, and many moo othyr knyghtys
and squyers. And whanne thys was done the kyng bode alle
nyghte in a vyllage faste be-syde ther that the batelle was done.
And on the morowe he toke hys waye unto Calys whythe hys
lordys and hys presoners, whythe hys owne mayne. And the
xxiij day of November the kyng come unto London whythe alle
hys presoners a bove sayd. And there he was ressayvyd worthely
and ryally, for the raayre, with alle the aldermen, whythe alle
good comyners, roode and fette hym ynne. And whythe a ryalle
processyon he was brought ynne; and there was mad, stondyng
apone the brygge, Syn Gorge ryally armyd, and at the Crosse in
Cheppe was made a castelle, and there yu was moche solempnyte of
angelys and virgenys syngyng merely. And soo he roode unttylle
that he came to Powlys, and there mette whithe hym xvj byschoppys
and abbattys whithe processyon and sensyd hym, and brought hym
uppe in to |?® qwere whythe devoute songe, and there he oflTerde and
the Franysche lordys alle soo. And thenne he rode forthe unto
Westemyster; and the mayre and hys bretheryn brought hym there.
Ande thys same yere be-ganne the generallc Conselle at Custaunce
of alle clargye and of alle maner of nacyons.

Nicholaus Wotton, j William Cambryge j a o ••••o
Mayre of London I Alayne Everarde )
And in that same yere, onne the mome aftyr Syn Symonnys day

* Thomas Arblastier. He was one of the retinue of Sir William Boorchier.
See Nicolas's Battle of Agincoort, 360.

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and Jude, that the mayre shulde ryde to Westemyster for to take ^ ^^"^5.1^

hys othe, come tydyngys to London of the batayle a-bove sayde

by the Byschoppe of Worseter,* that tyme beyng Chaunceler, for he

come to London erly in the momynge, and warnyd the mayre.

And thenne thorowe London they lette rynge the bellys in every

chyrche and song Te Deum ; and at Powlys, at ix of the clocke, the

tydyngys were oppynly proclaymyd to alle the comeners of y

cytte and to alle othyr strangerys. And thenne the Quene,^ and

alle hyr byschoppys and alle the lordys J?at were in London that

tyme, wentte to Westemyster on hyr fete a prosessyon to Synt

Edwarde ys schryne, whythe alle the prestys, and clerkys, and

fryers, and alle othyr relygyous men, devoutely syngynge ande

saynge the letanye. And whennc they hadde offerde, the mayre

com home rydynge merely whythe alle hys aldermen and comeners

as they were i-wounte for to doo.

Le Feste de Sentt Gcyrge a Wyndesore,

Ande thys yere com the Emperowre of Almayne ^^ in to London
be-fore the Feste of Synt Gorge. Ande the feste was deferryde
unto "hys commynge, and that was done solempny at the castylle
of Wyndesore. And at the prosessyon the kynge went a-pone
the upper-moste syde of the emperowre, and soo alle the masse
tyme he stode a-bove the emperoure. Ande at the mete the kyng
sate on the ryght syde of the emperoure, and the Duke of
Bedforde sate on the lefte syde, and the Chaunceler of Inglonde
and the Byschoppe of Devylyn sate on the left syde, and the Duke
of Bryga and a-nothyr duke of the emperours sate on the kyng ys
syde; and alle thosse vij satte on 00 syde of Y table. And the
fyrste sotellete of the fyrste cours was howe Oure Lady armyd
Syn Gorge and a aungylle doyng on hys sporys. And the secunde
sotellete was Syn Gorge rydynge and fyghtyng whythe a dragon

• Should be Winchester. Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester, afterwards
Cardinal. The title is giren correctly in Vit.
•* Joan of Navarre, widow of Henry IV. ^ Sigismnnd.

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Hen. V. whythe hys spere in hys honde. And the iij sotellete was a
AD. 1416. castelle, and Syn Gorge and the kynges doughter ledyng the lambe
in at the castelle gatys. And all thes sotelleteys were servyd
be-fore the emperoure and the kyng and noo ferther; ande
othyr lordys were servyd with sotelleteys • aftyr hyr astate and
degre. And that same yere come the Duke of Holand into
London, but he was nought at the feste a-fore sayde. And the
emperoure lay at Westmyster alle the wyle that he was here for
the moste party, and the Duke William of Holand in the byschope
ys place of Ely; and sone aftyr Mydsomer the kyng went to Caleys
whythe the emperoure, and the duke saylyd home ayenne and
mette whythe kyng at Caleys. And the Duke of Burgayne and the
Counte of Charlys sone come to Gravelynge; and the kynge sende
thedyr the Duke of Glouceter hys brother and the Erie of Marche
to abyde there in ostage, wylys that the Duke of Burgayne come
to Calys to speke with the kynge; and in the myddys of the ryver
the lordys mette togedyr. And the dukys sone of Burgayn ressayvyd
oure lordys and led hem in to Fraunce, and the Erie of Warwyke
ressayvyd the Duke of Burgayne ande brought hym to Calys, and
there they hadde a conselle twyne hem two ; and thenne h^ toke
hys leve of the kyng. And the Erie of Warwyke brought hym unto
Gravelyng water and in to the same place there as they mette
at the fyrste metynge; and there every party toke hyr leve of
othyr. And thenne the kynge retornyd ayenne into Inglonde and
the emperoure saylyde unto Holande and so passyd forthe in to
Constaunce.

Alle so that same yere the Duke of Bedforde and the Erie of
Marche, on oure Lady Day the Assumpsyon, they fought whythe
viij grete carykys of Jene and whythe 1. othyr shyppys, and they
toke hem whythe hyr patronys and drownyde a grette hulke of
the centre of Flaundrys.

Harry Barton, | Robert Wedyngton i j, o

May re of London | John Covyntee j

Ande the same yere, on Syn Petrys eve and Poule, the Erie of

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Huntyngdon whythe oj^yr certayne lordys faughtjm whithe carykys j^\J{j

•of Gene, and dyscomfyte hem, and toke iiij of ^ grettyste of them

and hyr patronys. And the amerelle of hem was the Duke of

Burbone, and he was take whithe hem whythe alle the tresoure

that sholde have wagyd hem for halfe a yere. Al so the same yere

the kynge saylyd unto Normandye the second tyme, ande he londyd

on Lammas day by-syde Tooke in Normandye. And the same

tyme the kyng wanne the towne of Tooke and assaylyd the castelle,

the whyche castelle on Syn Lauerens evjnne was yolde unto the

kynge, and he gave hyt unto hys brother the Duke of Clarens

whithe alle the lorschippys dependaunt there too; and thenne the

Duke of Clarens roode forthe to Cane whythe othyr lordys whythe

hym. And one oure Lady evyn, the Assumpcyon, he mustryd hys

men by-fore the towne of Cane; and the xij day of August the

kyng layde sege to Cane, and that contynuyd tylle the day of

the Natyvyte of oure Lady nexte folowynge; uppon the same day

the towne whythe grete sawte was yoldyd and wonne. And thenne

the kyng layde sege unto the castelle, and that in shorte tyme was

yoldyn unto the kynge; and whylys the kyng boode in Cane, the

Duke of Clarens roode to Bayeux and wanne that. And the same

yere the kyng wanne Argentyne, bothe the towne and the castelle.

And the kyng wanne Alansonne and many moo stronge castellys

and townys and stronge abbeyes.

Ande the same yere, a-pon Estyr daye at aftyr none, the Lorde
Stronge and Syr John Trusselle, knyght, fylle at debate for hyr
wyvys in the chyrche of Syn Donstonys in the Este, evyn at the
prcchyng tyme. In the same fraye Thomas Pedwardynne, fysche- •
monger, was slayne as he wolde have lettyde hem of hyr fyghtjmge,
and many men were i-hurte; and therefore the chyrche was
suspendyd. Ande thenne was the Lorde Stronge a-restyde and
brought unto the Counter in the Pultrye, and the Sonday nexte "^
aftyr he was cursyde in every chyrche in London, whithe boke,
belle, and candelle, in one houre of the day. And aftyr he dyde
hys penaunsse opynly thorow London for hys trespas ayenst Hooly

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A D^hTt 18 ^'^y'^^'^®* "^^^ ^^^* y®^^ ^^^ * ^y^^ y®^® ^^ whete, for a buschelle
was worthe ij s.

Eycharde Merlowe, j Harry Rede . j * o yZo

Mayre of London ( John Gedney J

Ande the same yere, scilicet, in anno v^,* the general conselle was
endyd, and a unyte made in Hooly Chyrche, and oo pope chosynne
at Custaunce on Syn Martyns daye, by comyn assente of alle the
generalle counselle, the whyche was callyd Pope Martyn the fyrste.^
Alle so the same yere Syr Johnne Oldecastelle was take in the
Marche of Walys and brought unto Westemyster in a chare, and
there he was juggyde to the dethe; and thys was hys juggement,
that he shulde be ladde thorowe London in the same chare unto
Towre Hylle, and there to be layde on a hyrdylle and drawe to
Syn Gylys galowys, and there to be hanggyd and brent. And so
he was hanggyd by a stronge chayne. For there was the Duke of
Bedforde, the Duke of Exceter, and alle the lordys of thys londe
that were |?at tyme a-bowte London, tylle that they hadde sene
hys juggement.

Ande the same day the person of Wortham, theffe, and hys
peramowre was broughte unto Westemyster Halle. And he was
sente to Newgate, and there he dyd«.

Ande that same yere the kyng layde sege unto Faleys the fyrste
day of Novembre, and that sege contynuyde unto the xx day of
Decembre, the yere of grace M^ccccxvij. Thenne the towne
dysendyd for to trete whythe the kynge, and the kyng commyttyd
the trety unto Thomas Erie of Saulysbury, and to Harry Lorde
Fehewe, and to Syr Johnne Cornewale, and to Syr Wylliam
Haryngdon, knyghtes and commyssy oners for hys partye; and as
for the party of the towne, Syr Wylliam Molene,*' Syr Gylberte

* Notwithstanding that the mayor and sheriffs for the sixth year are giyen at the
head of this chapter, almost the whole of it is devoted to events of the fifth year
omitted in their proper place.

•» Should be Martin the ly^h,

• Molene. Melone in Vit. The name is Menlhoa in Rymer.

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Mounstrewys, lorde of Fayete,* capytaynys of men of armys, and of 5®^'.^: ,«
the schotte whythe ynne the towne of Faleys, and whythe [them] *> ' '
a pon the same trete, the lord of GamuUe;*^ which ^ parteys entretid®
ande a cordyd uppon the artyculys and poyntmentys aftyr folowyng.

Fryste, that hit ys accordyd that the secunde day of Janyver next
folowynge they shulde yelde uppe y towne be-for sayde of Faleys,
whythe ynne the houre of terce, into the hondys and power of oure
soverayne lorde the kynge, or in to the hondys of hem be hym
commyttyde and assygnyde, yf soo be that they be nott rescwyde
be batayle of the kynge hyr lorde, or Dolfyn, hys eldyste sone, or
by the Constabylle of Fraunce. And on that the kyng [to] ^ setten
or do settynne in the fore sayde towne suche ^ warde and kepynge
as hit schalle lyke hym.

Alle so hit ys accordyd that alle the strongers that benne in
the fore sayde towne of Faleys, the whyche before thys tyme hathe
ben founde agayne, and in the rystynge of, the kynge in tyme
sythe hys fyrste comynge to hys Duche of Normandye, were hyt
at Cane, or in any othyr of furtheresser, or that have benn with
the kynge, or with any of hys subgettys in hys commaundementys,
that alle suche strangerys shuUe put hem only in the kjmgys grace
and mercy of oure soverayne lorde the Kyng of Inglonde.

Alle 80 hyt ys accordyd that they shalle dely very and yeldyn
uppe^ alle the presoners, Englysche or any othyr, holdyng of owre
lege lorde the Kyng of Inglonde, the whiche that* have benne

* Fayete. Our MS. reads, lorde of feyfty capytaynyt; but Vit. more accnratelj,
" lord Fayete, captejnis." *» Omitted in MS.; J. reads ** hem."

^ the lord of Oamulle, This reading is taken from J. The name is written in
the same waj on Norman Boll, 6 Hen. V., m. 2, from which the treaty is printed in
Hjrmer, and perhaps it maj be read, as Rymer reads it, '' Ganville." Onr MS. reads
absurdly, " they of Gannte." Perhaps the person intended was the Sire de GraTille,
who a few months later (4 July, 1418) disputed with the English the passage of the
Seine at Pont de I'Arche.— WiUiams's " Gesta Henrici V.," 122

* which, with, MS. • entretid. encresyd, MS.; corrected from J.
^ Supplied from J.

f tuche. The MS. reads << whiche," an evident error, which is corrected from Vit
»• " the town and," V. * that, there, V.; that there, J.

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AD^Tm 18 P^®^^^®^ ^ fore* the fjrste daye a fore sayde, ande at the same
daye of thys present trete, and [that] ^ non appechementt ben put up
ou none of hem by hyr maysterys nowe at that thys tyme [nor in
tyme] ^ to come, be hyt sommaunce * requyrynge or askyng in any
maner [matier] * what soo evyr hyt be, but fynallye the for sayde
maysterys shalle aquyntyn, renownsyn, and relessyn to hyr presoners
hyr troughthys, hyr behestys, and hyre othysse, whyche that [the
seid presoners mowen have made to heir maisters in eny maner, and
that] ^ whythe owte fraude or malyngyne.

AUe so hyt ys accordyd that the fore sayde capytaynys shulde de-
ly very owte of the towne of Faleys in to the hondys of the commys-
senaryours of oure soverayne lorde the Kyng of Inglonde, al thoo
that were borne in Inglonde, Walys, and Yrlonde, or Gascoyne,
whiche be-fore thys tyme have holde whythe the party of Inglonde,
and for thys presentt tyme ben in thys sayde towne of Faleys
contrarye ayenste the kyng and hys parteyes.

AUe so hyt ys accordyd that non of the captaynys, nor burgessys,
nor non othyr of the towne, shalle geve nor suffer for to be gevyn
to hem of the castelle of Faleys any strengthe of men, of armys, or
of schotte, nor maner of socoure of armyrowrysse or artury, schottys,
powder, gonnys, or any othyr comfort durynge the for sayde trete.

Alle so hyt ys accordyd that noo captayne, ne none sowdyer,
burgeys, ner comyner, nor non othyr beynge whythe ynne the
sayde towne of Faleys, shalle ressayve or suffer to be ressayved or
drawyn owte of the castelle the captayne of the same castelle nor
non othyr of the same garysonne thereynne beynge at ' thys present
tretys.* Ande alle soo they shulle nott drawe any ^ of hem of the
castelle undyr the coloure of thys presentt tretye.

Ande uppon thys our soverayne lorde the kynge of specyalle grace

* be/ore repeated in MS. ^ Supplied from J.

* Omitted in MS.; sopplied from J. and V.

* J. reads, " be it to sommone, reqoiren, or asken."

* Omitted in MS.; supplied from V. ^ at. and, MS.; at, J.
f tretyt. tyme, J. ; trete tyme, V.

^ any, J. reads, *< eny goodes of them of the castel nndre the colour and shadowe
of her owne goodes of the towne, ne undre the colour of this present trete.*'

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hathe graxintyd unto the forsayde captaynys, sowdyers, and othyr of Hen. V.
the sayde towne, hyr horse, hameys, and alle hyr othyr goodys
what evyr hyt be, owte-take artury, shotte, powders and gonnys,
arblastrys, and bawderykys for arblastrys, whyche that shalle abyde
stylle in the same towne, and alle wey for to sen that the straungers
of whyche the seconde artycule makythe mengyon, nor shalle
not emynucyon * the pryvelegys and the beny fy tys of thys presentt
artyculys.

Alle the for sayde captaynys have sworne a-pon hyr honowre
that durynge the for sayde trete that they shalle not makyn nor
suffyr to be made any brekyng, wastynge, nor be putt nor done
a waye any of suche artyculys, shotte, or any othyr thyng be-fore
sayde.

Alle so hit ys accordyd that durynge the fore sayd trete noo
maner of poyntment of the wallys of the towne shalle be made, but
the wallys shalle be leve stylle lyke as they ben foundyn the fyrste
daye of this present trete.

Alle so hyt hys accordyd that noo sowdyer nor stranger in the
towne of Faleys shalle not make noo robory nor pylyage on the
burgeysys of the towne of Faleys in' noo maner, ande yf any suche
evylle doers ben founde, that thenne the captaynys of men of armys
and of shotte do ther on justyfyynge and execusion, or ellys that
alle suche evylle doers shalle forfete hyre benyfys and hyr saffe-
condyte.

Alle so hyt [is] ^ accordyd that the sayde captaynys nor non othyr
of the same towne shalle nought here away, nor purlayne, nor suffer
to ben i-purlaynyd or doo a-waye, any ornamentys, jewellys, or
relyqwys of Hooly Chyrche, be they of the same towne or of any
othyr relygyous owte of ]?® towne, that perchaunce were brought
unto the towne for dowte of warre or othyr wyse i-brought unto
the towne.

Alle so hit ys accordyde that the for sayde captaynys nor non

■ emynucyon. enjoie, J. A blank is left for the word in Y.
»> Omitted 'm MS.

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Hen. V. othyr of hyr feleschyppe shalle nought ledyn nor here, nor sufier
for to be borne nor lede, owte of tbe townye of Faleys, noo maner
of goodys undyr the colowre of appyontementt, but oonly hyr owne
propyr goode.

AUe 80 hyt ys accordyd that alle the capitaynys whythe hem of
alle hyr company shalle a-voyde the towne of Faleya the secunde
day of Janyver abovyn sayde by the sonne goynge downe, but yf
that they were rescwyd as hyt ys a-fore sayde. And oure soverayne
lorde the Kynge of Inglond of hys specyalle grace hathe grauntyd
to alle and to every burgeys of the towne of Faleys, that wylle
dwelle and abyde stylle in the fore sayde towne, there to a-byde
and dwelle, sykerly and surely and fully, whythe owte any enpechy-
ment uppon hem to putte in body or in goodys, mevabylle or
unmevabylle, as herytagys nor possessyons whythe ynne' the fore
sayde towne, but pessabylly rejoysynne as hyr propyr goodys at
thys tyme and in tyrae to come, as they myght done before the
yelding upe of the same towne; be so alle way that they so wyllynge
to dwelle and byde in the same towne be come legys and obedyaunte
to oure soverayne lorde the Kyng of Inglonde and hys ayrys.

*Alle so hyt ys accordyd that noo captayne, sowdyer, nor burgeys,
nor comyner, nor non othyr whithe ynne the sayde towne of Faleys,
shalle nought ressay vynne, nor suffer to ressayvynne, nor drawyn of
the castelle of Faleys the captayne ther of, nor non of there garysons,
nor non at thys tyme there abydynge [in] ^ the for sayde chastelle, nor
noo maner of goodys to hem longyng undyr colowre and shadowe of
goodys of the towne, nothyr undy[r] coloure of thys presente trete.
Alle so hyt ys accordyd that hangyng thys presentte trety and
appoyntement noo maner of warre shalle be made by-twyne hem
ande the oste of oure soverayne lorde the Kyng of Inglonde and
hem of the towne of Faleys.*'

* This is a repetition of a former article which will be fonnd in its right place on
p. 118. *» Omitted in MS.; supplied from J.

*> J. adds, ** forseen alweys that it be nnderstanden that the castel of Faloys» ne
non iheryiif be comprehendid ne taken in this present abstinence.''

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AUe 80 hyt ys accordyd that the forsayde lordys and capytaynys Hen. V.

of the towne of Faleys shalle take and delyvery xij of the
jentyllyste knyghtys and squyers notablye in ostage, the whiche
ehalle be delyveryde a-yenne at the daye that the forsayde lordys
and capytaynys havyng fully hyr poyntys.* ^ And for thys trete and
appoyntment welle and trewly [to] ^ ben holdyn on oure parte, the
forsaide Tliomas Erie of Salysbury, Harry Lorde Feehewe, John
Comewale and Wylliam Haryngdon, knyghtys, unto thys sedylle {id
est a bylle) of poyntmentt have sette to oure selys for the grete ^
aflFyrmacyon of trought. Gevynne be-fore the towne of Faleys, the
XX day of the mony the of December and the yere a-fore sayde.

The whyche towne in maner and forme as hyt ys be-fore sayde
was yoldynne to our soverayne lorde the kynge of Inglonde ]?•
peconde daye of Janyver as hyt was before lemytyd, ande the
castelle be lefte stylle un-y[o]ldon unto the fyrste daye of Fevyrer ;**
the whyche castelle was yoldynne the seconde daye of the monythe
a-bove sayde, and delyveryd in maner and forme a-fore-saydc,.&c.

Ande thenne the Kyng of Inglonde lette parte his oste to prynces
thens on dyversse wayes; that ys to saye, on party toke my lorde
the Duke of Clarens whythe many fuUe worthy lordys whythe
hym, and he gate many townys and castellys and stronge abbeys.
And the Duke of Glouceter toke a nothyr partye of the oste, and
whythe hym the Erie of Marche, the Lorde Graye, the Lorde
Clyfforde, Syr Watyr Hongerford, stywarde of the kyngys howse,
whythe many othyr knyghtys and squyers; and he gate, or he
layde sege to Chyrborowe, xxiiij townys and castellys. And sone
aftyr Ester he layde sege to the towne of Chyrborowe, and con-
tynowyde unto Mychelmasse, and thenne the towne and the castelle
was yolde unto hym, Ande the iij party of the oste the kynge

• havyng fully hyr poyntyt. ban folfillid here promyse, J.

*» Omitted in MS.; supplied from J. « grete, gretter, J.

^ J. giyes also the text (translated) of the articles for the surrender of the castle,
which are dated on the 1st Feb., and of which the two first are printed in Rymer, ix.
541, in the original French. See Appendix.
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Hen. V. delyveryde unto the Erie of Warwyke and othyr lordys whythe
' hym. And they gate many stronge townys and castellys and abbeys.
Here begynnythe the vj yere.

Ande aftyr Ester the kyng layde sege unto Lovers ande wanne
hyt, and aftyr that he wanne Pountte Large. And the kynge
layde sege unto the cytte of Reyne,* and that contynuyd tylle the
xxiiij ^ day of Jany ver nexte aftyr.

Wylliam Sevenoke,
Mayre of London

John Bryon

Raffe Barton j A^ vij.
John Pernys

The same John Bryan scheryve unto the ix day of Octobre, and
thenne he dyde; and thenne John Pernys was chose sheryve for
the yere. And fro that day of Saynt Edwarde contynuyd the sege
of Rone unto the xxiiij ^ day of Jany ver, as hyt ys by-fore sayde; at
the whiche day they of the cytte desyryd to trete. And the kynge
commaundyd the Erie of Warwyke, and the Erie of Salysbury, the
Lorde Fehewe, Syr Watyr Hungerforde, Gylbert Houmfryvyle,
John Vasquyes de Almada, and Robert ^ Knyght, to trete why the
hem. And for the party of Roone [these folowyng] : *

Fyrste, hyt ys accordyd that Syr Gy Butler, captayne of the
cytte of Roone, with the consentte of the nobylle cyttezyns and
of othyr dwellynge and beyng in the same cytte and castelle a-bove
sayde, whythe owt fraude or malyngnynge, what tyme aftyr the
myddys of the xix day of thys present monythe of Janyver, oure
sayde lorde the kynge wylle that the cytte and the castelle too
hym or to hys be delyveryd undyr maner and in forme whythe
ynne wrytte.

AUe so hyt ys accordyd that the day and the howre * of that of
the nobylle cyttezyns and othyr whatt soo evyr they be dwellynge

• Ronen. ^ Should be the 13th.

• Rohert. Robesard, J.

^ \the»e folowyng'\. Omitted in MS.; supplied from J. Neyertheless it is clear
there is a further omission, eren in J.

• howre. The h of this word is stmck out in all these places.

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and beynge in the fore sayde cytte and castelle shalle submyt hem Hen. V.
in alle thyngys to the grace of oure excellent lorde the kyng. ^■^' ^^^^•

Alle 80 hyt ys accordyd that fro thys howre » unto the reale and

. effectualle [yeldyng] •> of the sayde cytte and castelle, none of

forsayde noble cyttezyns othyr othyr ^ being in the same cytte and

castelle shalle nought goo owte of the sayde cytte and castelle with

owte specyalle lyscens of oure excellente lorde the kynge.^

Alle so hyt ys accordyd that fro thys howre * unto the delyverans
of the cytte any ® of J?® parteys shalle abstayne hem from alle goodys ^
of werre to make a yenste the othyr partys of hem. Alle so hyt ys
accordyde that the noble cyttezeyns and othyr beynge in the cytte
and castelle shalle paye to oure fore sayde lorde the kynge CCC M^
scwtys of golde, where of alle way ij of hem shalle be worthe an
Englysche noble, or in stede of every scwte xxx grete blankys wyte,
or XV grotys; of the whyche CCC M^ scwtys that one parte shalle be
payde unto oure soverayne lorde the kynge, or unto hys deputys,
whythe ynne the cytte of Eoone be-fore sayde, the xxij day of thys
present mony]?e of Janyver, and the othyr halfe payde to oure
sayde lorde or to hys deputys in the feste of Syn Mathie the
Apostylle nexte to come, that shalle be the xxiij* day of Feverer,
whythe owte any delay i-hadde, &c.^

Alle so hyt ys accordyde that every subgett of oure sayde lorde
the kynge that nowe ben or were presoners to any person in the
sayde cytte or castelle, and hyr pleggys, shall be utterly fre as
a-yens thes personnys, and the summys that they ar boundyn ynne,
at the day of thys present trete and accorde.

* See vote *, p. 122. ** Omitted in MS.; supplied from J.
« So in MS. The first " othyr " seems to mean " or."

* This clause is repeated in the MS. with the yariation, " non of the fore sayde
cyttezyns or othyr."

* any. eTcry, J.

'' goodys. Evidently a transcriber's error for dedys. J. reads dede.
' xanij. Should be 24th. See Rymer, ix. 665.

** Here sereral articles are omitted which may be seen in Bymer. They are given
in the English in J.

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Hen. V. Alle 80 hyt ys accordyde that alle and every soudyer and stranger

beynge in the sayde citte and castelle shalle swere on the Evaun-
gelys of God be-fore there departyng, that they shall not here armys
a-gayne oure sayde lorde the kynge or any of hys, unto the fyrste
day of Janyver nexte to come, for no maner mp.undement ]?at to
hem of any maner person in contrary may be done or ennyode*

Alle so hyt ys accordyde that alle and every jewelle, relykys,
and othyr goodys longgyng to the abbaye of Synt Kateryne,
whythe ynne the same cytte and castelle, beyng alle hooUy, shalle
be delyveryd unto hym whom that the Kyng of Inglonde deputyn
or ordeyn hem to ressayve aftyr the delyveraunce of the sayd
cytte.

Alle so hyt ys accordyde that the fore sayde noble cyttezyns and
othyr whythe in the sayde cytte and castelle beyng, shalle make
the same cytte and castelle be-fore the sayde xix daye of this pre-
sent monythe of Janyver suffycyantly and honestely to be made
clene, and alle so honestly and diligently that alle the dede bodys
newe dede or to ben dede in to that daye of delyveraunce of the
cytte honestely and dylygently shalle ben beryd.

Alle soo hyt ys accordyd that the for sayde noble cyttezyns and
alle beynge in the sayde citte and castelle anon shalle recey ve ^ and
don entre in to the same cytte and castelle alle and everyche beynge
in the dychys * of the sayde cytte that for penurye * went owte of the
same cytte whom ® they shalle be holde to fede unto the xix day of
Janyver above sayde, as they wylle answere unto Gode and the
kyng; and owte takyn them they shalle not ressayve non othyr per-
* sonnys in to the same cytte or castelle unto the forsayde day with
owte specyalle lyssens of oure moste dowtfulle*lorde the Kyng of
Inglonde. But yf hit happe any massyngere or harowde of armys

* enjoined.

** recey ve. resome, MS.; recey ?e, V.; receyven, J,
« or abont diches, J.

* penurye. femnrye, MS.; penurie, J. Vit. reads "fere."

* whom, whanne, MS.

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of the adversy party of the kynge to come to the partys of j?® gatys ^^\J{^
or dychys of the sayde castelle and cytte •

Whiche ^ artyculys and appoyntmentys, as hyt ys before sayde, alle
and every chone in maner as hyt ys accordyd, the forsayde captaynys
and the noble cyttezjms ande othyr whythe ynne the sayde castelle and
citte being, welle and trewly whythe owte any firaude or malygny ^ to
holdyn ande observe and kepe they be-hote, ande thoo two be kepte
and fuUefyllyd they bynd them soo, but yf yt be falle oure sayde
moste doughtefulle lorde the kynge, that God for bede, to ben ovyr
come in the batayle to hym i-made by Charlys hys adversarye of
Fraunce or the Duke of Burgayne, be-fore the for-sayde [xix] * day
of thys present monythe of Janyver; for to sen* alle way that [if] *
hyt be falle the forsayde Charlys adversary, othyr the Duke of
Burgayne, or any othyr, to come to the sege of oure kynge to remoeve'
fro the forsayde cytte, that nothyr the fore sayde captayne nor non
of the cy ttezyns, sowdyers, othyr othyr 8 beyng whythe ynne the for
sayde cytte or castelle, shalle goo owte, nor noo maner helpe they
shalle delyverye nor lene to hem, so azens oure lorde the kynges
comyng in nomaner a wyse.

Alle so, that alle thes maner of pojmttementysse, covenauntys,
and accordys, and every poynte as hyt ys a fore sayde, welle and
trewly and unbrokyn to be kepte; and for the more surete of the
same covenauntys and accordys, the for sayde captayne, the noble
cyttezyns, and othyr above sayde shalle ben takyn in thys tyme
anone into the hondys of oure lorde the kynge iiij schore notable

* The conclnsion of the sentence is omitted not only in onr MS. hut also in J.
and V. In the Latin it is, *' ipse in ipsa non recipietnr, sen providehitnr eidem per
dominnm nostmm Regem de salvo condnctn."

*» Whiche, The MS. has " with the " written as if it were the continuation of the
previous sentence.

* malygny, malengyne, J.

< Omitted in MS.; supplied from J.

* for to sen, i. e. foreseen, provided.

' remoeve. remayne, MS., corrected from J.
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A^i°i7<> P^®gy8» where of xx*^ shalle be knyghtys and squyers, ande the reme-
naunte cyttezyns of the same cytte, att hyr owne coste to be siis-
taynyd. For the party sothely of oure moste doutefuUe lorde ande
kynge a-fore sayde, gracyusly and benyngly consederynge the meke
submyttynge and yeldynge of the sayde citte and castelle above
sayde, he hathe grauntyde that alle and everye person of what
a-state or degre that he be of condycyon with ynne the sayde
castelle [and cite] • beyng, [excepte] * sartayne peraonys with ynne
expressyde, that wylle be-come legys and subgetys to oure lorde the
kynge, and fro hensforthe wylle dwelle undyr his obessauns, they
shalle have there herytagys and goodys, mevablis and unmevablys,
whythe ynne hys duche of Normandy constitute; and whiche that
benne afore the day and date of thys present letters by oure fore
sayde lorde the kynge to** othyr personys have nought be yovyn
and grauntyde, excepte armours artyrlys a-bove sayd ; raakyng and
doyng [for]* hyr herytagys, and for hyr unmevabylle goodys to
oure for sayde lorde the kynge, the services ® ther-of dewe and con-
suete, or to swere to whom suche manor of servyce of the graunte
of oure lorde the kynge ought too long.

Alle so hyt ys agrauntyd of oure lorde the kynge ys be-halve,
that alle the cyttezyns and dwellers of the cytte of Roone that
nowe be, or in tyme to come shalle be, [and] ^ shall have alle ande
every (ranches, lybertes, and prevelegys J?® whiche of worthely
mynde be progenys of oure lorde the kynge, of kyngys of Ing-
londe, dukys of Normandye, to hem and to hys sayde cytte were
grauntyde, in possessyon where [of] * they were the fyrste day that
oure lorde the kynge" a-fore sayde come by fore the sayde cytte; and
alle so of more large grace of hys benyngnyte hathe grauntyde, that
the same cyttezyns and dwellers of the citte shalle havea lle the
l yberteys, and franches, and prevelegys, whereTKeywere i n pos-

* Omitted in MS.; snpplied from J.
*» to. and, MS.; corrected from J.

* services, sermoys, MS.

^ This word is clearlj snperflnons.

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s essvons on the fore say de fyrste dav of comvnge aLimrfe-lQidaJlie Hen. V.
kynge before the cytte, of the graunte of hys progenytourys of ' '
kyngys of Fraunce that were before tyme of Phylyppe Valeys,
adversarye of oure lorde [the kyng].*

[Also it is grauntid and accordid in our lord] the kyngys behalve,
that alle the strangers, sowdyers, and othyr in the fore sayde citte
and castelle, beynge at thys tyme nought wyiljmge to be come leges
of onre lorde the kyng, the for-sayde citte so yoldynne as hit ys before
sayde, to departe, levynge to oure sayde lorde the kyng all hyr
armowrys, hors, artylyrs, and othyr thyngys, harneysse, and goodys,
excepte the Normandy^ that wylle nought be lyges of oure lorde the
kynge, J?at thoo alle shalle a-byde presoners of oure lorde the kyng.

Alle so hyt ys grauntyd in oure lorde the kynges behalve, that
the werre and alle so schrewde spciche that duryng the sege the
folke and pepylle nemnyd, of what condycyon that they ben, ayens
hys ryalle soveraynyte, or whythe defame lyppys have spoke, oure
moste soverayne lorde the kyng, of strenyger the day of parte **
mekely shalle be forgevynne, owte take the personys that above in
specyalle ben exceptyd.*'

Alle so hyt ys accordyd in oure lorde the kyngys be halve, that
the for sayde soudyers and strongers be-fore thys presentt trete and
accorde, wyllyng for to departynne, oure lorde the kyng shalle
ordaynne and make a sykyr and saffe condyte in form consuete.

And so the fore sayde cytte was yoldyd to oure soverajme lord the
kynge uppon Synt Wolstonys day.^ And aftyr that he gatte many
townys and castellys, as hyt shalle aftyr thys be wretyn alle the
processe.

* The end of this sentence and the beginning of the next are omitted in onr ^TS.,
which rnns on without a break from the word ** lorde " to <' the kyngys behalre * aa
if it were one sentence.

•» of gtrenyger the day of parte, of steiyng the day of pietie, J. These are
strange cormptions. The Latin has ex inttinctu DiviruB pietatU.

^ They are mentioned in the preceding clause in the original treaty; but their
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A^''i4^ RichardeWytyngdon, I Robert Whytyngham -i ^o ^jjjo

Majnre of London I John Butteler )

Ande in that yere, the xx day of May, the yere of oure Lorde
M* cccc XX, the kyng come unto Troys, in Chaunpeyne, and there
he was worthely ressayvyde of alle the lordys spyrytualle and tem-
poralle |?at were there whithe the Kynge of Fraunce. And on
the raome the Kyng and Quene of Fraunce, and Dame Katerynne,
and the Duke of Burgayne, mette to gedyr in Synt Petrys
chyrche in Troys; whiche metyng was in the body of the chyrche.
Ande thenne they went upe to the hyghe auter, and there were
the artyculys of the pes redde, and the othys made on aythyr
partye. And thenne was the kyng and Dame Katerynne swryde
to-gedyr. And on the mome aftyr was Trenyte Sonday, that was
the iij day of June, the yere of oure Lorde M* CCCC xx, in the
chyrche of Troys, the kyng spowsyd Dame Kateryne, Kyng Charlys
dough ter of Fraunce; and thenne he was made Regent of Fraunce,
and the convencyons of the whiche acordyd folowynge here aftyr^
that ys for to saye : —

Harry, by the grace of God, Kyng of Inglond, heyre and Regent
of Fraunce, and Lorde of Yrlonde, to perpetualle mynde to alle
Crystyn pepylle, ande to alle that ben undyr owre obeysaunce, we
notefy and declare that thoughe* here before djrvers tretes have
ben be twyne the moste excellente Prynce Charlis, owre fadyr of
Fraunce, and hys progenytours, for the pes to ben hadde be twyne
ij realmys of Fraunce and of Inglonde, the whiche here by fonie
have borne no ^ frwte, we, consyderynge the grette harmys that have
ben, not oonly by twyne ij realmys for the grette devysyon J;at hathe
ben be-twyne hem, but to alle hooly Chyrche, we have take a
trete whythe oure sayde fadyr and us, that for as moche as be the

* thoughe. thoronghe, MS.

** home no. These words are taken from J., and are a tme rendering of the text
of the original treatj (see Bymer, ix. 895). Onr MS. reads, <*haTe ben frwte/*
foUowing perhaps some other translation in which the word << without '' has been
omitted. Vit. reads, still more absurdly, ** bare ben frendes."

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bonde of matrymonye, i-made for the goode of the pes be-twyne us j^^^Y^q
and oure moste djrre modyr Isabelle hys wyffe, the same Charlis and
Isabelle ben made fadyr and modyr, and there fore take hem as
for owre fadyr and modyr, we shaUe have and worschippe as hyt
syttythe and Bevny'pe so worthy a prynce and a prynceese too ben
i-worschippyde, pryncypally before alle othyr temporalle personys
of the worlde.

Alle so we shalle nought dystroble, nor dyssesyn, nor lette oure
sayde fadyr, but that he holde and procede' as longe as he levythe,
and holdythe, ande he possedythe at thys tyme, the crowne and
dygnyte of the ryalte of Fraunce, and rentys and profytys of the
same, to the sustenaunce of hys estate and chargys of the realme of
Fraunce, and owr modir al so holdjmg as long as she levythe the
estate and dygnyte of the queue, aftyr the manor of the same realme,
whythe convenable and convenyante parte of the sayde rentys and
profytys.

Alle so that the fore sajrde Kateryne shalle take and have dwer
in oure realme of Inglond, as [queues of England] ^ here a-fome
were wonte to have and take, that ys for to saye, to the summa of
xl M^ scwtys yerely, of the whyche ® ij shalle be worthe a nobylle
Englysche. Alle so the maners, weyis, and menys that we may,
whythe owte transgressyon or offensys ofte * i-made by us for to kepe
the lawys, customp, usagys, and ryghtys of owre said realme • of
Inglonde, [we] ^ shalle done owre labur and pursewe that the sayde
Eaterynne, alsone as hyt may be done and be made sure, for to take
and for to have in owre sayde realme of Inglonde fro tyme of oure
dethe, the sayde xl W scutys yerly, of the whyche twyne shalle alle
way be worthe* a nobylle of Englysche mony.

• procede. A transcriber's error for " possede," i.e. possess.
^ Omitted in MS.; supplied from J.

< o/thewhichen;peiAed,'MiS,

^ qfte. We should certainly road, " of the oath; " bnt the words do not occur
eyen in J.

• of owre sayde realme repeated in MS. ' Omitted in MS.
» worthe. with, MS.; corrected from J.

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Hen. V. Alleso yf hy t happe the sayde Kateryn to ovyr levyn us, she shalle

take and have in the rqalme of Fraunce, immediatly fro the tyme
of oure dethe, dower to the som of xx M^ frankys, [of] • and up
the londye, placys, and lordeschippys that helde and hadde Dame
Blaunche, sum tyme wyf of Phylyppe, befnelle** to oure sayde
fadyr.

Also that a-non aftyr the dethe of oure sayde fadyr, and fro thens
forwarde, the crowne of the realme of Fraunce, with alle the ryghtes
and the aportenaunce, shalle remayne and a byde to us and ben of us
and of oure ayrys for evyrmore. Ande for as moche as oure sayde
fadyr ys holdyn with dyvers sekenys in syche maner as he may
nought entende in hys owne person for to dyspose the nedys of the
fore sayde realme of Fraunce: therefore, durynge the lyffe of oure
sayde fadyr, the facultes and the excresisse of the govemaunce
and disposyscyon of the goode publique and comyn profyte of
the sayde realme of Fraunce, [withe] ^ counselle of nobylle and
wyse men of the same realme of Fraunce, shalle be and 'a byde
to us 800 that fro hens forwarde we may governe the same realme
of Fraunce be us, [and] ^ also by othyr that whythe yn the consayle
of the sayde nobylle, that we lyste or lykyn for to depute; the
whyche faculteys and excressisse of govemaunce, thys beyng towarde
us, we shalle labur and purpose us spedefully, diligently, and trewly
to that that be and ought to be to the worschyppys of God and
of oure sayde fadyr and modyr, ande also to the comyn goode of
the same realme, with the conselle of the worthy, grete, and nobylle
of the same realme for to be defendyd, pesyde, and governyde after
the ® ryght and equyte wylle.

Also that we to oure power shalle do that the corte of the

*■ Supplied from J.

** hefnelle. Should be betaile, i. e, great-grandfather, or proavus. The readings
in J. and V. are equally corrupt.

° Supplied from J.

^ and. Omitted both in our MS. and in J. and V., all which begin a new sentence
or paragraph with the word " also."

• the. that, J.

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parlyment of Fraunce be kepte and observyd in hys auctoryte j^^'.Y^a
and superioryte, and in alle that ys dewe there to, in alle maner of
placys that nowe or in tyme to comyn ys or shalle be subjecte to
oure sayde fadyr.

Also we to oure power shalle defende and kepyn every chone and
alle the perys, nobljrs, cytteys, and townys, comynalteys, and synguler
personys nowe or in any tyme to comyng subjectys to oure fadjrr
and to us, in owre ' ryghtys, customys, pryvelegys, fredams, and
franches longynge dewe unto us, in alle maner of placys nowe or in
tyme comyng subjectys to oure fadyr and to us. Also that we
delygently and trewly shalle travayle unto oure power and to that
justyse be admynystryde and done in the same realnxe of Fraunce,
and aftyr the lawys, customys, and ryghtys of the same realme of
Fraunce, whytheowtjm personalle exepsyon, and that we shalle
ke[pe] and holdynne the subjectys of the same realme in tranquyllyte
and pes, and to owre pouer we shalle defendyn hem ^ ayens alle maner
of violens and oppressyon.

Also to oure pouer we shalle purpose and do that able ^ personys
and profytable be takyn yn to offys as welle of justys of the Parly-
ment, as of baylyagys^ senescallis, provestys, and othyr offycys
longyng to the governaunce of demaynes * and of othyr officis in
the sayde realme of Fraunce for the goode, ryght, and pesyble
[rule] • in the same realme, and for admynystracyon that shalle
be commyttyd unto hem, and that they be syche personys that aftyr
the lawys and ryghtys of the same realme, and for the utilyte and
profyte of oure sayde fadyr, and at ' the fore sayde realme, ought
to be take and depudyd unto the same pfiysys.

Also that we to oure pouer, and as sone as hytt may compen-

• owre, J. readfl more correctly " here," t. e, their.
^ hem, hym, MS.; hem, J.

® able. aUe maner, MS.; corrected frem J.
^ demaynes. demaytys, MS.; corrected from J.

* Omitted in onr MS. and in J. and V.

' at. So in MS., though the word.should certainly be " of." Yet J. reads " that"
andV."atte."

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A^iJab ^y^^^y ^^ done, we shalle travayle [for to] • put in obedyens of oure
sayde fadyr alle maner of citteys, townys, castellys, placys, cuntreys,
and personys whythe yn the realme of Fraunce ennobedient and
rebellys to oure sayde fiidyr, holdyng with the party that ben callyd
Dolfyn or Armanak.

Also that we may the more comodyualy, seurly, and firely exersisse
and fuUe fylle thes thynges afore sayde, hit ys also accordyd that
worthy grete nobylles and astates of the same realme of Fraunce,
as welle spyrytualle as temporaUe, and also cytteys, notablys, and
comynalteys, cytezyns, and burgeys of townys of the realme of
Fraunce, that be obesyaimt at thys tyme to oure sayde fadyr,
shalle make thes othys that folowyn: —

Fyrste, to us, beryug the feculte and exersisse of disposisslon and '
govemaunce of the sayde comyn profyte, and to oure hyestes and
commaundementys that ^ shalle mekely and obedyently [obeie] •
and entende in alle maner of thyng oonsemynge the excersise of
governaunce of the same realme.

Also that the worthy grete noblys and astatys of the sayde realme
of Fraunce, as welle spyrytualle as temporaUe, and also citteys and
townys, and notabylle comynalteys, and cyttesyns and burgeys of
the sayde realme, in alle maner of thyngys, welle and trewly shalle
kepe and to oure pouer shalle do kepe of alle as moche as to them
longythe or to any of hem, alle the thyngys that bene a-poyntynde
or accordyde by twyxt oure sayde fadyr and modyr and us with
the counselle of hem whome* we lyste to calle to.

Also that contynually fro the dethe, and aftyr the dethe, of oure
sayde fady [r] Charlys, they shalle be oure trewe lyge men and owre
ayrys, and they shalle ressay ve and admyt us for hyr lyge and hyr
soverayne lorde and verry Kyng of Fraunce, and for suche us •
obeye with owte opposicyon, contradicyon, or deficulte; and, but hit
bene to owre fadyr duryng hys lyf, nevyr aftyr thys day they shalle

^ Omitted in MS.; supplied from J. ** that, thei, J.

•■ Supplied from J.

* whome, whenne, MS.; corrected from J. « u$, as, MS.

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obeye to man as Kynge or Kegaunte of Fraunce, but to us and to Hen. V.
owre ayrys.

Also that they shalle not bene in oonselle, heipe, or assente that
we lese lyffe or lym, or ben takyn with any takyng, that we suffer
harme or dyvysyon in persone, astate, worschippe, or goodys, but yf
they knowe any suche thyng for to bene done, caste, or imagyd
agayne us, they shalle let hit to hyr power, ande they do us to wyte
ther of as hastely as they may, by hem selfe, or by message, or by
lettejg.

Also that alle maner of conquestjrs that shalle be made be us
of Fraunce up on the same inobedyentes* owte of the duche of
Normandy shalle be dbne to the profytys of oure sayde fadyr;
and that to owre power we shalle do alle the maner of landys and
lordschippys that ben in the placys so to be conqueryd longyng to
personys obejmge to oure sayde fadyr, whyche shalle swere for to
kepe thys present accorde, and shalle be restoryd to the same
personys to wham they longe to.

Also that alle maner of personys of Holy Chyrche benefysyd in
the duchye of Normandy, or in any othyr place in the realme of
Fraunce, subjectys to us, [which] ^ ben obedyent to owre sayde
fadyr, and faveryng the party of the Duke of Burgayne, to the
whybhe shalle swere to kepe thys present a corde shalle rejoyse
pesabylly hyr benefysys of Hooly Chyrche in the duchye of
Normandye, or in any othyr placys nexte above sayde.

Also lyke wyse al maner of personys of Hooly Chyrche obedyente
unto us and benefysyd in the realme of Fraunce, in placys subjette
to owre fadyr, [the which] ® shalle swere for too kepe thys present
acorde, shalle rejoyse pesabylly hyr benefys3r8 of Hooly Chyrche in
placys nexte a-bove sayde.

Also that alle maner chjrrchys, unyversyteys, and studyys
generalle, also coUegyff of studyers, and othyr collegys of Holy
Chyrche, beyng in placys nowe or in time to come subjecte to

* inobedientes. in obedyens, MS.; corrected from J.

^ Omitted in MS. "" Supplied from J.

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134 Gregory's chronicle.

A^°i42'o ^^^® sayde fadyr, or in the duchye of Normandye or otliyr placys
of the realme of Fraunce subjecte to us, shalle ressayve hyr ryghtys,
hyr possessyons, reivtys, prerogatyvys, liberteys, and fraunchessys
longyng or dewe to hem in any maner wyse in the sayde realme of
Fraunce, [savyng the right of the crowne of Fraunce]* and of
ayther ^ othyr person.

Also by Goddys helpe, whenne hit happythe us to come to the
crowne of Fraunce, the duchye of Normandy, and also othyr placys
conqueryd by us in the realme of Fraunce, shalle bowe undyr the
commaundement, obeysaunce, and monarchye of the crowne of
Fraunce.

Also that we shalle enforce us and done for oure power that
recompence be made by oure sayde fadyr, vrith owt dymycyon * of
the crowne of Fraunce, to personys obeynge to hym and faverynge
to the party, that ys to say, to ]?« Duke of Burgayne, to whom
longythe landys, lordeschippys, rentys, and othyr possessyons in the
same Duchye of Normandye or othyr placys in the realme of
Fraunce conqueryd by us [hidertoward given by us],** in placys and
londys gotyn or to be goty n and ovyrcome in the name ® of oure
sayde fadyr up on rebellys and inobedyente to hym; and yf hyt so
be that lyke maner recompence be nought made to the sayde personys
by the lyfe of owre sayde fadyr, we shalle make that recompe in
suche maner, placys, and goodys, whanne hit happythe us, by
Goddys helpe, to come to the crowne of Fraunce. And yf hyt
so happe that the londys, lordeschippys, rentys, possessyons, that
longythe to suche maner personys in the same duchye and placys
[that]' ben nought genyfe* by us, the same personys shalle be
restoryde to hem with owte any delay. Also that duryng the
lyfe of oure sayde fadyr, in alle placys nowe or in tyme comyng
subjectys to hym, lettyrs of comyn justyse, and also grauntys of

• Omitted in MS.; supplied from J.

*» ayther. eyery, MS. * Should be diminuti4m.

<* Supplied from J. *' name, same, MS.

^ This word is superfluous. ' given.

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ofiys, gyftys, pardonys, or rerayssyons, shalle be wrete and precede Hen. V.
undyr the name ande the sealle of oure sayde fadyr. And for as ' *
moche as sum synguler cas may be-falle that may nought be ibme
sene by mannys wytte, in the whyche hit myght be necessary and
honustefulle that we doo wrytte oure letters in suche maner cas,
yf any happe, for the goode surete of oure sayde fedyr, and for
the govemaimce that longythe unto us, [as]* hyt ys be-fore sayde,
and for to eschewe perellys that other** wyse myght falle in [places]*
subjecte to oure sayde fadyr, to wrytte oure letters, by the whyche
we shalle commaunde, carge, and defende aftyr the nature and
qualyte of the nedys in oure fadyrs be halfe, ande of owrys as
Regente of Fraunce.

And also durynge oure fadyrs lyfe we shalle nought nempne nor
wrytte us Kyng of Fraunce, but utterly we shalle abstayne us
fro that name as longe as oure fadyr lyyythe.

Also that oure sayde &dyr duryng hys lyfe shalle nempne, calle^
and wrytte us yn Frenche on thys maner: Noetre treschere fytz^
Eenryj Roy (PEnglyterre heyttr de Fraunce ; and in Latyn in thys
wyse: Precarissimus filiua nosier Henricus Rex Anglie et Jieres
Fronde.

Also we shalle nowe put in possessyons^ or exacoyons, or do
put, to the subjectys of owre fadyr, with owte cause resonable and
necessary, non ® othyr wyse thanne for comyn goode of the sayde
realme of Fraunce, and aftyr teseyng ' and axkyng of the lawys ande
customys, resonabylle and aprovyde, of the same realme.

Also that we shalle travayle for owre power, to the effecte and to
the avyse and a-sent of three * estatys of ejrthyr othyr ^ realmys of
Fraunce and of Inglonde, al maner obstaculys done a-way in thys

• Omitted in l^IS.

•» ath^r. any, MS. ; corrected from J.

^ Omitted in MS. and in J.

*^ So in MS., meaning, <* We shall not put impositions."

• non, Shonld be " nor."

' teseyng. the seiyng, J. The Latin is dictamen.

^ three, thys, MS. ^ othyr. of the, J.

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A^^{Xx P^*^y> *tat bene * ordaynyde and provyde, that frome ^ the tyme that
we or any of owre eyrys come to the croune of Fraunce, bothe
crounys, that ys to say, of Fraunce and of Inglonde, perpetually to
bene togedyr in one and in the same person, that ys to say, fro oure
fadyrs lyfe,« and fro thens terme of oure lyfe; and fro thens
forwarde, yn the personys of oure ayrys that shalle bene, one aftyr
a nothyr. And that bothe realmys shalle be govemyd, fro that
we or any of oure ayrys comyn to the same, nought severally^
undyr dyvers kyngys in any tyme, but undyr one and that same
[person] • whiche the tyme shalle be kynge of bothe realmys and
soverajrne lorde as hyt ys above fore sayde; kepyng, nevyrtheles, in
alle maner of eythyr' thyngys and lawys, nought makyng subjecte
in any maner of wyse one of the same realmys on to the othyr, or
puttjrng* or submyttyng the ryght, lawys or usagys of [oon of the
seid realmes to the rightes, lawes, custumes, and usages of] ^ that
othyr of the same.

Also that same^ forwarde perpetually shalle be sty lie yn reste;
and in alle maner of wyse ^11 cese alle maner of dyssencyons,
hatys, and rancoure, envyes, and warrys, bytwyne the same realmys
of Fraunce and of Inglond and pepylle of the same realmys, drawing
to a-corde of the same pes. And there shalle be fro hens forthe
and evyrmore and shalle folowe pes and tranquyllyte and goode'
acorde and comyn affeccyon and stabylle frendeschyppe be-twyne
the same realmys and hyr subjectys be-fore sayde; and the same
realmys shalle helpe hem selfe with hyr consellys, helpys, and
comyn assentys ayenste alle maner of men that enforce hem for to

* that bene, i. e., that it may be.

•» frome. for, MS.; corrected from J.

« The reading here is yeiy cormpt, and ought to be as in J. <^ onre, from thens,
terme of oure liffe; and from thens forward/' kc.

* severally, soverenly, MS.; corrected from J.

* Supplied from J. ' eythyr, other, J.
f puttyng, partyng, MS. ; corrected from J.

** Omitted in MS.; sapplied from J.
' tame. So in MS.

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done or for to be ymagenyd wrongys, harmys, dyssesys, or grevaunce .^";X'^
to hem or aythyr of hem to othyr, and they shalle be conversaunt,
and marchauntyse to-gedyr frely and sewrely, payng the custome
and devoyrys dewe and customyde.

And also that alle tho confyderyd* ande aleyde to oure sayde
hdjT and the realme of Fraunce be-fore sayde, and also oure con-
fyderatys of the realme of Inglonde be-fore sayde, the whyche in
viij monythys fro ^ the tyme of thys accorde of pes notefyed to hem
we ^ wylle declare by oure letters to hem that wyUe ^ drawe imto thys
accorde, and that wylle be comprehendyd undyr thys tretys and
accorde of thys pes, ys,^ savynge, nethertheles oth)rr of the same
crownys, and alle so alle maner accyons, ryghtys, and remedyes that
long3m to oure sayde fadyr and hys subjectys, and to us and to oure
subjectis a-gayne suche maner alyes and confyderatys.

Also that nayther oure fadyr, neythyr oure brothyr the Duke of
Burgayne, shalle be-gyn to make whythe Charlys cheryng hym
selfe for the Dolfyn of Venys® any trety or pes accorde, but of
counsellys and assent [of] alle and ^ eche of us thre, or of othyr ^
astatys of aythyr of the same realmys.

Also that we [with the] ^ assent of oure brothyr of Burgayne
and othyr of the nobylle a-perys of the realme of Fraunce, the
whyche there to owyn to be callyd, shalle ordayne for hyr gover-
naunce of the persone of oure sayde fadyr, sykerly, lyvyngly, and
honestely, aftyr the askynge of hys ryalle astate and dygnyte, by
the maner that shalle be to the worschyppe of God, and of owre

* eonfyderyd, consydeiyd, MS.
^fro, for, MS.

" ne wylle declare hy cure letters to hem that Ttylle, The text here is pecaliarly
oormpt, but we forbear to alter it The true reading is in J.: " woU declare by here
(i.e, their) lettres that thei wol."

^ yt. This word is superfluous, but the following words, which appear in J., have
been omitted: "bene comprehendid undre the bondes, suerties, and accorde of this
peas."

• Viennes. ' and, in MS.
f othyr. the thre, J., which is the right reading.

*" Omitted in MS.
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Hen. V. fadyr, and of cure realme of Fraunce. And alle maner of personys
* that shalle be a boute owre sayde fadyr to done hym personalia
servyse, nought only in ofiyse, but in alle othyr servyse, as welle
[to] * nobyllys as [to] • othyr, shalle ben suche as hathe bene borne
in the same realme of Fraunce, or yn place that ben lanyage of
Fraunce, good, wyse, trewe, and able^ to the fore sayde servyse.

And owre sayde fadyr shalle dwelle in notabylle placys of hys
obedyens, and no where ellys.

Where-fore we charge and commaunde owre sayde legys and
subjectys, and othyr beyng undyr oure obedyens, that they kepyn
and do kepjm in alle that longythe to hem thys accorde and pes,
aftyr the forme and maner as hyt ys accordyd; and they attempte
in no maner wyse thyng that may be peegydyse or contrarye to the
same accorde and pes, be payne of lyfe, and alle that [thei] *^ may
forfete agayne us.

And thenne, aftyr the feste and solempnyte was done of that
maryage, the kyng conqueryd many townys and castellys in
Normandy. And thenne the kynge layde sege to Myleu sur-Sen ;
and duryng the sege the mayre and the sherevys of London were
chosyn. And at that syge laye the Kynge of Fraunce, the Kynge
of Inglonde, and the Kynge of Scottys, and the Queue of Fraunce,
and the Queue of Inglonde, with hyr mayny, &c.

Wylliam Cambryge, ( John Butlere -j a o

Mayre of London I John Wellys j

IX"

Ande that same yere, on Candylmasday yn the mornynge, the
kyng com in to Inglonde and the queue with hym and they londyd
at Dovyr; ande the xiiij day of Fevery the kyng com to London,
and the xxj day of the same monythe was crownyde at Westemyster ;
and the solempnyte was done in chyrche of Synt Petyt, and she
was brought fuUe worthely towarde y palys into the grete halle, &c.

Nowe of the statys and of the coronacyon of Queue Kateryn and

■ to. ^This word is sapjerflaons in both these places.

•* able. aUe, MS.; corrected from J. « [thei"]. Supplied from J.

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of othyr manyr of servyse. Fyi«te the quene sette in hyr astate, Hen. V.
and the Archebyschope of Cantyrbury and the Byschoppe of Wyn-
chester sate on the ryght syde of the quene, and they were servyd
nexte unto the quene every cours coveryde as the quene; and on the
lyfte ayde was the Kyng of Schottys sette in hys a-state uppon the
lyfte syde of the quene, that was servyd alle wey nexte the quene
and the byschoppys a-fore sayde; the Duchyes of Yorke and the
. Countas of Huntyngdone satte in the same syde, and the Duke of
Gloucester was ovyr seer, the Erie of Marche knelyng on the hye
deys on the ryght syde of the quene and held a cepture in hys
bond of the quenys, and the Erie Marchelle knelyng on the lyfte
syde at the dyes and helde anothyr cepture of the quenys; and the
Gountasse of Kentt was syttyng at hyr ryght fote of the quene
undyr the tabylle, and the Counteys Marchalle sate on the lyfte
syde of the quene undyr the tabylle; S)rr Rycharde Nevyle kervyr
before the quene, the Erie of Sowthefolke * cuppe berer, Syr John
Stywarde sewer unto the quene, the Lord Clyfforde panter in the
stede of the Erie of Warwyke, the Lorde Wylleby butler in stede of
the Erie of Arundelle, the Lorde Gray Ryffyn naperer, the Lorde
of Audely amyner ^ in stede of the Erie of Cambryge, the Duke of
Bedforde Gonstabylle of Inglond, the Erie of Warwyke Stywarde of
Inglond in stede of the Duke of Clarence, the Erie of Worceter
Marchalle of Inglonde in the stede of the Erie Marchelle, &c.

Tlie maner of syttyng of the astatys ^ yn the haUe at
Wystemyster,

Fyrste, the baronys of v Portys be-ganne the tabylle in the halle
on the ryght honde of the quene, and by nethe hem at the same
tabylle the bowgerys of the chauncery; and the may re of London
and hys aldyrman be-ganne the borde on the lyfte gyde of the
qu^ne in the halle with othyr worthy comyners of the same cytte,

• J. says, " Therles brother of Suffolk, cup berer."
** amyner. J. reads " avener."

* at the other tables, J.

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A^i42i *^^ othyr men benethe hem at the same tabylle. The byschoppys
beganne the tabylle in the myddys of the halle on the ryght honde
nexte the v Portys, the Byschoppe of London withyn the tabylle,
the Byschoppe of Dereham nexte hym whythe jm the tabylle, and
the Byschoppe of Bathe and the Byschoppe 'of Exceter be-fore
hem ; the Byschoppe of Norwyche, and the Byschoppe of Saulysbury,
the Byschoppe of Syn Davys, and the Byschoppe of Bangar, the
Byschoppe of LyncoUe, the Byschoppe of Carlylle, and the Abbott
of Waltham with hem. And thenne aftyr them sate the justyse,
and worthy knyghtys and squeyers. And thenne the ladys be-ganne
the tabylle in myddys of the halle on the lyfte honde of the quene,
nexte the mayre of London. The Countasse of Stafforde,* sum
tyme doughter of the Duke of Gloucester; the Countesse of Marche ^
hyr doughter; the Countasse of Arundelle; the Countesse of Weste-
merlonde; the Countasse of Northehormerlond ; the Countasse of
Oxforde; the Lady Nevyle,*' sum tyme the lordys wyffe Nevyle that
was sone to the Erie of Westemerlonde, and doughter to the Erie
of Somersette; Dame Margarete** the dukys doughter of Northe-
folke and suster to the Erie Marchalle; the yonger doughter^ to the
Erie of Somersett; the Lady Kos; the Lady Clyfforde, suster to
Harry the Erie of Northehumberlond ; the Lady Bergeveny ; the Lady
Talbat; the Lady Wylby ; the Lady Mawley ; the wyffe of Kycharde

* Anne, daughter of Thomas of Woodstock Dnke of Gloucester, who married, first,
Thomas Earl of Stafford, and afterwards his brother Edmond, who succeeded him
in the title.

^ Anne, daughter of Edmund Earl of Stafford, second husband of the lady
mentioned in the preceding note. She married, as her first husband, Edmund
Mortimer, Earl of March.

° Elizabeth, fifth daughter of Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent, was the wife of
John Lord Nerill, son of Kalph Nerill, first Earl of Westmoreland. Her husband
died in 1423, during his father's life.

* Margaret Mowbray, daughter of Thomas first Duke of Norfolk (who was
banished by Richard II.), and sister of John Earl of Nottingham and Earl Marshal,
who was not restored to the dukedom of Norfolk till 1424.

** Margaret, daughter of John de Beaufort, Earl of Somerset, the son of John of
Gaunt. She married Thomas Courtenay, Earl of Devonshire.

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Nevyle, dougliter to the Erie of Salusbury,* and noo moo ladys of .^°;)1\
state. And thenne forthe with jentylle wemmen thjrs tabylle was
occupyde and a quarter of the byschoppe ys tabylle ther to. Thes
lordys Bewjng were asygnyd for' to do servyse lyallys before the
quene; the Erie of Northehumberlond and the Erie of Westemore-
lond, the Lorde Fehewe, the Lorde Furnevale, the Lorde Gray
ofWylton, the Lorde Ferrys of Groby, the Lorde of Ponyngys,
the Lorde Haryngton^ the Lorde Darsy, and the Lorde Delia
ware, &c.

Tlie servyse ofthefyrste eours,

Braune with mustarde, elys in bumeus, furmenty with bakyn,
pyke, lampriay powderyd whythe elys, pouderyde trought, codde-
lyng, plays with merlyng fiyde, grette crabbys, lesche lumbarde, a
bake mete in paste, tartys, and a sotylte i-callyd pellycane, etc.

TI^ secunde cours in the halle.

Jely, blandesoure, bremme, congur, solys with myllott, chevyn,
barbylle, roche, samon firesche, halybutte, gumarde rostyd, roget ^
boylyde, smelte firyde, lopstere, cranys, lesche damaske, lampray in
paste, flampayne. A sotelte, a panter & a mayde before hym, &c.

The servyse of iij cours in the halle.

Datys in composte, creyme motley, and poudrid welkys, porpys
rostyd, meneuse fryde, crevys of douce,*^ datys, pranys, rede
schry [m]ppys, grette elys and lamprays rostyd, a lesche callyd whythe
leysche, a bake mete in paste with iiij angelys. A sotelte, a tygyr
and Syntt Gorge ledyng hyt.*

* Alice, sole daughter of Thomas de Montacnte, Earl of Salisbury. She was
married to Richard Nerill, third son of Ralph first Earl of Westmoreland, and after
her father's death her husband was created Earl of Salisbniy.

** roget. roches, J. ^ of douce, de ewe donee, J.

<* The description of this coronation and banquet, especially the latter, is more
full in J., bnt as that account has already been printed by Nicolas in the "Chronicle
of London," pp. 162-5, 1 have refrained from noting the omissions in footnotes.

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Hen. y. And uppon Ester eve, that was the xxij day of Marche, and the
raygne of the kynge ^ ix, the Duke of Clarans with many othyr
lordys were slayne in Fraunce and many lordys takyn presoners.*
And the same yere the kyng helde a Parlymentt at Westemystcr
aftyr Estyr in monythe of May, in the whyche Parlyment was
axyde no talege, wherefore the Byschoppe of Wjmchester lentte
the kynge xx M* pounde. And in thys Parlymentt was ordaynyde^
by cause that golde was gretely a payryde by clyppjrng and wasch-
ynge, that no man shulde aftyr Crystysmas nexte aftyr put forthe
no enpayryd golde in no paymente uppon payne of fiirfeture there
of; where fore every man for the moste party ordaynyd hym balans.
And the same yere, a non aftyr Wytson tyde, the k3mg saylyd in
to Fraunce a-yenne and the Duke of Bedforde was made Lew-
tenaunte of Inglonde. Ande the same yere came the Duchyes of
Holonde in to Inglond.

Eoberte Chycheley, I Eic. Goslyne j * ©

Mayre of London I Wylliam Weston )
Ande that same yere the Duke of Bedforde held a Parlyment at
Wjrstemyster, and that be gan the iij day of Decembir; in the
whyche Parlyment was grauntyd a quyndesyn and a dyme to the
kynge, that tyme beyng at the sege of Mewys in Brye, in Fraunce,
and the halfe quyndesyra and dyme to be payde antt Candel-
masse nexte folowynge, and that the k3mg shuld ressayve soche
payment as went that tyme: that ys to say, yf a nobylle were
worth vs. and viijd. the kyng shulde take hyt for a fiille nobylle
of vjs. & viijd.; and yf the nobylle soo appayryde were better
thenne vs. viijd., the kyng too paye the ovyr plus of vs.
viij d. Also that yere was grette scareyte of whyte mony that
men myght unnethe have any golde changyd, thoughe hit were
nevyr soo good and of fuUe whyghte. Also that yere, on Syn
Nicholas day in Decembyr, the yere of oure Lorde M^CCCC and
xxj, Harry, the fyrste begotyn sone of Kyng Harry the v, was borne
in the castelle of Wyndesore; to whom was god fadyrs at the fonte
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Harry Byschoppe of Wynchester, John Duke of Bedforde, and the Hen.V.
Duchyes of Holond, Jacomyne, was the godmodjrr; and at the
confirmacyon the Archebyschoppe of Cantyrbuiy, Harry Chycheley,
was godfadyr. Also the same yere, in the monythe of May, the
yere of oure Lorde M'ccccxxij, and of the raygne of the kynge
the X, the cytte in Mewys in Bry, whyche long tyme hadde be
besegyd [was yolden] * in the maner as folowythe aftyr: —

Thys ys the plesynge and the wylle of the Kyng of Fraunce, and
of the Kyng of Inglond, hys beuefys,** heyre, and regant of the
realme of Fraunce, that the market place of Mewys in Bry, and
they that benne with jrnne, be yoldyn and delyveryd in the maner
as sewythe aftyr:

Fjrrste, alle tho that be with ynne the fore sayde markett, of what
a-state that they bene, shalle yoldyn uppe the sayde markett place
of Mewys in Bry and hyr bodys prisonerys to the sayde kyngys of
Jnglond and of Fraunce with jn the x day of thys presentt
monythe of May, the yere of oure Lorde a-bove sayde M^CCCCxxij.

Also that the sayde kyngys, at ]?* reverens of God and eschewyng
of Crystyn mannys blode, shall ressayve [hem]* as hit folowythe
after, that ys to wetjm, Syr Lewys Graste, Guycharde of Cisse,
Mayster Robert Guesene, Phylyppe Gamcelys,* Peron de Lupe, John
Damoy,* le Bastard de Varru, Denys de Varru, Maystyr John de
Bomys Termagyn,' Bamarde Domerville,* and John de la Motte;**
one that blewe and sownyd an home durjmg the sege, that men
say ys namyd Grasse; and alle the gunners the consentaunte and
compabyle of the dethe of the Duke of Burgajme that was; they
that othyr tjrme have made othe of the fynalle pes; they that

* Omitted in MS.; supplied from J. These articles are also printed in Bymer,
X.212.

^ i. e, bean fils. ^ hem. Supplied from J. and Bymer.

' Gamcelyt. de Gamoches, J. and Rymer.

* Damoy, Dannoy, Bjmer and J.

' Romyi Termagyn, Konmos Treemajn, Bymer; Bournes Tremagyn, J.
f Domerville, de Merrille, Bymer; Tromerril, J.
»• MaUe, Mette, MS.

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JUDf^ui^ have townys, or strenghtys, or govemaunce by othyr for hem;
the Englysche, Yrysche, Schottys, and alle oj^er that have bene
obedyensof the kynge or the regannte, yf any there bene yn the
sayde markett place dwellyng; — that all* they shalle a-byde and
dwelle to the wylle of the forsayde kyngys. Also the sayde kyngys
shall ressayve alle the othyr in the sayde markett place beyng, in to
hyr goode grace and mercy for to dwelle presoners, hyr ly vys savyde.
Also for as moche as hyt towchyd the sayde kyngys, Syr Lewys
(Jaste, the bastarde of Barru, Denys** de Barru, and Mayster John
de Raynys,^ they shalle be putt to hyr dome, and justise shalle
be done and mynystryde to hem.

Also as touchynge the forsayde Guycharde de Cysse, Peryn de
Luppe, Mayster Robert de Groy83me, Phylyppe of Chancellerys,^
and John Damoy, the forsayd kyngys declaryn that they shalle
dwelle and abyde to hyr wylle as be fore sayde, unto the tyme
that the townys of strengythe that by hem, or be any of hem, oy
othyr on hyr be-halfe, or by of er that any thynge shulde be or
may be don for hem, be holdyn, be* yoldyn and delyveryd to
the sayde kyngys, or to hyr comyssoures and deputes, and aftjrr
hyr ordynaunce, the whyche thjmge they shalle done with alle hyr
dylygence possyble, with owte fraude or malyngne ; aftyr the whyche
yeldynge uppe and delyveraunce the sayde kyngys shalle holdyn
or do be holdyn the above sayde Guycharde, Peryn, Mayster
Robertt, Philippe, and John Dawney in surete of her lyvys, so
that they or any of hem shalle nought be dewly founde coupabyle
of the dethe of Duke of Burgayne. And as towche the othyr
exceptyde, they shalle a-byde the wy"e of the fore sayde kjmgys,
as hyt ys contaynyd in the secunde artycule.

Also the Erie of Brienne ' shalle [be] * quytte a yenne the fore
sayde Peron of alle that in whyche he ys bounde or holdyn for

• all tyUe, MS. "» Denyt, Venys, MS.

« de Raynyt. Bomnes, Bymer; de Bonmes, J.

^ So here. • he. or, MS.

' Brienne, Bayne, MS. f Omitted in MS.

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cause of hys ransom or othyr wyse, and the sayde Peron shalle ^°|}^*
playnly quyte hym in takyng hys letters or quytaunce to the sayde
erle, and he shalle yelde to hym alle the letters that he hathe of
hym or of any othyr uppon that.

Also the [fore] * sayde, beyng in the foresayde markett of Mewys
in Bry, hangynge the sayde tyme^ and that a none, shalle putt or
shalle done to putt by inventary alle the comys, wynys, and othyr
vy tayle beynge in the sayde markett, and aftyr the placys where they
shalle bene, for to benne takynne and delyveryd to the comyssours
and deputes of the sayde kyngys. And in lyke wyse shalle benne
in hors beyng in the sayde markett.

Also they shalle putt or done putt in any certajrne place with 3m
the sayde markett alle the abyllymentys of werre that benne there
ynne, as welle pouders, gounnys, and arblastys, schott, or othjrr
artylers, with owtyn any fraccyon, brekyng, wastyng, or a-payryng.

^ Also the a-boven sayde of the sayde markett shalle puttyn or do
puttyn alle hyr hameys of werre in a certayne place.

Also the same wyse they shalle putt or do putt in certayne place
alle the jewellys and reliquys, bokys, omamentys, and othyr goodys
mevabil, beyng in the sayde markett, longyng imto the chyrchys,
abbayys, mynstyrs, pryours, or hospytalys what soo evyr they bene,
levyng to hem to be restoryde in hyr placys of othyr" chyrchys of
the sayde markett, and whythe owte fraude or malynge.

Also ^ they shalle putt or do putt in a place or two alle the golde,
sylvyr, vesselle, jewellys of golde and sylvyr, bokys, robys, lynnyn
clothe, and also woUyn clothe of alle maner, beyng in the sayde
markett, and that longythe^to 'othyr thanne the sayde chyrchys,
abbeys, mynysters, pryorys, hospytallys, and that with owte fraude
or malyng.

Also, for to fuUefylle that they have sayde, they shalle brekynne
and undo and make oppyn alle that bene hydde or [withdrawen in
the thinges and goodes aboveseid, or any of hem, where that thei

* Omitted in MS. ^ This article is not in Rymer.

« other, the, Rymer and J. * Also. Alle, MS.

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Hen. V. ben hidde or] * dystryde ^ in the same markett, with owtynne with
drawyng or to hylyn anythyng what hy t so be ; and that may not
be done nor executyde with yn the fore sayde day, they shalle
declarynne and denounsyn with owte fraude, faynyng, or malynge,
unto the comyssourys and deputes of the sayde kyngys, uppon payne
that J?ey [that] ^ shalle done the contrarye, and the consentauntes,*
and the coupabyle ® there-of, shalle lese the grace of the fore sayde
kyngys and the effecte of thys presentt apoyntmentt.

Also uppon the sayde payne the ^ above sayde beyng yn sayde
markett shalle be holdyn [and] ^ to take and delyvyr, shewyn and
declare, with owte fraude or raalynge, to the comyssourys or deputes
of the sayde kyngys [al the goodes and thinges] * above sayde,
with owtyn any thynge to hem hylyn or withdrawyn or i-borne
awaye or oth3rr, for hem or any of hem.

Also they a-bove sayde, beyng in the sayde markett place of
Mewys in Bry, shalle delyvery playnely and shalle yeldyn quyte
alle the presoners that they have and with holdyn of our subjectys
and obeysaunce, and othyr of the sayde servys of the sayde kyngys,
as welle alle that benne in the sayde markett as in othyr places
where that they bene; ande with that they shalle playnly quyte
alle othyr subjectys [obeisaunces] * and othyr of the sayde servyse
of the above sayde kyngys j^at to hem have made any be-heste or
faythe or othe.

Also, hangynge the tyme above sayde, they of the sayde markett
shalle nought ressajrvyn nor suffeme to entre, any preson ^ what so
evyr he be, in to the sayde markett; nor they shalle not suffer any
maner of person to passyn or go owte there of for to here owte any
of the sayde goodys beyng there ynne, with owte lyscence of the
sayde kyngys; nor they shalle not purchesse, nor suffer to be pur-

■ Omitted in MS.; supplied from J.

^ dyttryde, discoTrind, Rjmer; distonmid, J.

« Supplied from J.

** contentauntet. consentmentjs, MS.; corrected from J.

** coupabyle. compabyle, MS. ' the. of, MS.

f Thifl word is snperflnoas. ^ preson. So in MS.

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ehessyd, any thyng that may be predyjusse * of the eayde kyngys, Hen- V.
nor non othyr of hyr subjectys, or ellys for to inpechyn the fulle-
fyllyng of thys presentt apoyntment, uppon payne to losse by hem,
or hem that shalle done the contrarye, and hyr consentamentys
and compabylys there of the grace of the marcy of the sayde
kyngys.

Also uppon the payne and othe alle tho fore sayde beynge in the
sayde markett, ande eche of hem, shalle holde and kepe and fuUe-
fyUe alle the poyntementys and artyculys a-bove sayde and eche of
hem, with owte hem or any of hem for to brekyn ne** any wyse to

done there a-gayne. .

Also that thei shul make ^ othe and thei shul take ^ hyr letters
selyd with hyr selys for the snrete to bene holdynne by twyne the
kyngys a-bove sayde, and of othe[r] of hem, in to the nombyr of
a c personnys, as welle of captaynys as of othyr notabylle personnys,
beyng in the sayde markette, and they thatt have non sealys and
canne wrytte [thei shul eigne the lettres] ^ with hyr owne hondys
[and] * they shalle passyn byfore the kyngys tabyllyon of Mewys in
Bry. And the same weyse they that have non sealys, nor canne
nott wryte, shalle also passe by the kyngys tabyllyon to be nne
regysterde.

Also ande fro ® the day of thys present poyntementt shalle be done
and fullefyllyde, and into that day encludydde, at the whyche day
they shalle be holdyn to take and dely very the sayde markett, as hyt
ys sayde, in alle maner alle wey dede of werre shalle sessyn on owre
party and of othyr.

Also the a-bove sayde of the same markett a noon shalle take and
delyvery to the comyssours and deputes of the sayde kyngys, Syr
Lowys Gaste, Eob«rte de Guesseny, Phylyppe Gamochys, John

• predyjuite. 80 in MS. *» #w. in, MS.

« thH thul make — thei shul take. These words are from J. Oar MS. reads
absnrdlj, " cherchcfnlle makyng "— " cherchefnJle takynge."
^ Supplied from J.

• /re, for, MS.; corrected from J.

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Hen. V. Daraoy, le Bastarde de Barrowe,* Denys de Barowe,* Mayster John

A.D. 1422.

de Kaynys, and othyr of the nombyr of xxiiij personys, wherof ^ the

comyssours of on party and of an othyr be accordyd. 1

The whiche artyculys a-bove sayde and ® declaryd were concludyd, 1

apoyntyd, and accordyde by the Duke of Exceter, the Erie of
Warwyke ande of Bryenne, and Syr Watyr of Hungerforde, com-
yssours and deputes of the sayde kyngys be-halfe in the one partye, ^
and Peron de Luppe, John Damoy, Mayster Phylyppe Malete,* and
Wylliam Frosche,® for hem selfe and for alle y othyr of the sayde
markette, of the othyr party, the secunde day of the monythe of
May, the yere of oure Lorde M* CCCC xxij. And soo the x day of
the same monythe the sayde markett of Mewys in Bry and alle the
towne was yoldyn in maner and forme as hyt ys a-bove sayde. '

The same yere the xiij day of Auguste a newe wedyrcoke was
sette at Powlys stypylle in London.

Also the same yere, the laste day of Auguste, the yere of oure
Lorde M^ CCCC xxij, the good and nobylle Kyng, Harry the v aftyr
the Conqueste of Inglonde, floure of chevalrye of Crystyn men,
endyd hys lyffe in Fraunce, at Boys in Vincent, be syde Parys, the
X yere of hys raygne, to whom God graunte mercy. Amen.

Ande that same yere, the xx day of Auguste, deyde the
Byschoppe of London, Clyfforde, and thenne was made byschoppe j

Mayster John Eempe^ whos bonys, the viij day of Novembyr i

next folowyng, worthely at Westmynyster were interyde. '

Here foloweythe namys of the townys and castellys, abbeys, I

pylys, and pylettys, in Normandy, that oure fulle excellent lorde the ^

Eyng Harry the v. wanne and conqueiyde in Normandy and in ,

Fraunce, to hym and to hys ayrys, in maner and forme as hit ys
bove sayde. i

• Barrowt, Warrn, in Rymer; Verrne, J.

•» wherof. whos of, MS.; corrected from J. i

* and. **haTe," MS.; corrected from J. and Rymer. '

* Some names are here omitted, for which see Rymer, xii., 214. i

• Frofch^. Fosse, J. and Rym.

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Fyrste the towne of Hareflewe and the castelle of the same, the Hen. V.
castelle of Toke, the castelle and towne of Cane, the towne and the
castelle of Argentyne, the towne and the castelle of Fallex, the
towne and the castelle of Mewys in Bry, the towne and the cytte
and the castelle of Eone, and many moo, the nomb3rr of an c
townys and castellys, abbeys, and strong-holdys.

Here benne the namyB of Mayiys and Sherevys in the tyme Hen. VI.
of Kynge Harry the vj, the fyrste begotyn sone of Kyng Harry •^•^- H22-S.
the v., the whyche yere of hys raygne be ganne the fyrste daye of
Septembyr, the yereof oure Lorde M> ccco xxij, and the age of the
Kyng Harry the vj nought fully xij monythys whenne he be-
ganne hys raygne.

WylHam Waldeme, I Wylliam Estefyllede ^ ^o -o
Mayre of London I Robert Tedyrsale )

Ande that same yere, the xxj day of October, in the momynge
by twyne vij and viij of the belle, Kyng Carlys of Fraunce dyde,
whos body p worthely enteryde at Syn Denys.

Also the same yere the kyngys Parl3rment was holde at Weste-
myster, and that be-ganne the ix day of November, in the whyche
Parlyment was ordaynyde the govemaunce of the kynge, howe he
shulde be governyd in hys tendyr age.

Also in that Parlyment was grauntyd unto the kyng v. noblys of
every sacke woUe duryng the terme of the * yere. Also the same
yere, the secunde^ day of Marche, was Syr Wylliam Tayloure,
preste, brende in Smethefylde for heresye. And the for sayde
secunde^ day of Marche wasse made the trety of the delyveraunce
of Pounte Mylanke, that was take and longe tyme holdyn by the
party callyde the Armonackys, and delyveryd as hyt in maner aftyr
folowyfe: —

• the. So in MS.; J. reads "dnring iij. yere," and V. " dnryng the terme of t.
yere after." The sabsidj was really granted only for two years. See Bolls of
Parliament, It. 173.

^ J. reads ** first " in hoth these places; which agrees best with what follows.

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Hen. VI. Here folowythe the appo3mtment and yeldyng uppe and delyver-
aunce of the stronge holde of the brygge of Fount Mylancke,
by twyne the Erie of Sawlysbury, Syr John Fastolfe, Stywarde of
Howsholde, Syr Perys of Founteneye, Lorde of Kaynys, Stywarde
of the Howsholde of the Regaunt of Fraunce, Duke of Bedforde,
Syr John de PuUyngley, Lord of the Mote de Tylly, knyghtye,
and Kycharde Woodevyle Lorde of Preaus, Nycholas Burdete,
Chyffe Butteler of Normandy, Perys Baret Lorde of Cirone, squyers,
comyssourys, and deputes therto of the be-halfe of my lorde the
Eegaunt of Fraunce on the one party, and Syr John Gravylle
Lorde of Mountayne, and Syr Lewes Marchelle, Syr Adam of
Stonys,* John de Chaunler, John of Myrayle, Roger of Versy, and
othyr mo oth3rr dyvers** of the party of hem that nowe presentt
occupyen the sayde Pounte.

Fyrste the above said beynge in the sayde Pounte [or fortresse
of Melank, shul yelden the same Fount]*' and strengythe to the
hondys of my sayde lorde the Regaunt of Fraunce, or of the*
commyssourys or deputes, so areryd, strengythe* and abylyde of
gonnys, poudrys, arowblastys, schotte, hameys, and othyr abyly-
mentys of werre, as hyt ys at thys tyme, with owte fraude,
desepsyon, and malynge, and with owte to done to the same
abylymentys of werre and othyr thyngys defensabylle for the sayde
strenghthe any waste or any brekyng, nor non inpayrement of
vytayle or of any othyr thynge for mannys body, the whyche
strengh|?e and brygge they shalle yeldyn and delyveryde as hyt
ys sayde on the morowe, the secunde day of thys presentt monythe
of Marche, at the hour of terce, &c.

Also hit ys accordyd and poyntyde that alle they nowe beynge
at thys tyme in the same Poynte or strengythe of Melancke, of what

* Stonyt. Strones, J.

^ and othyr fno othyr dyven. and John of Marie, ordejned, J.

* Omitted in MS.; supplied from J.
<* the. his, J.

* areryd, strengythe. arraied and strengthid, J.

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a-8tate or condyscyon that he be, they shalle yeldyn hym and putt ^^\l}o

hem in alle thynge to the wylle of my saydo lorde |?e Eegaunt^ of *

multe* and grete humylyte and obeysaunce that they may or shalle,

by cause of whyche humylyte and obeysaunce the sayde comys-

sourys and deputys of my sayde lorde the Eegaimt [have promysid

that hym self my lord the Regent],** of hys hye grace, in usyng of

marcy and in honowr and reverens of God and thys hooly tyme of

Lentt that nowe ys, shalle ressayve hym to grace and lete hem

have hyr lyvys: excepte tho that certayne tyme have benne in

obeysauns of the kynge that was of Inglonde, heyre and Begaunt

of Fraunce, to whom God pardon, they thatt have made the othe

of the fynalle pes of the realmys of Fraunce and of Inglonde,

and they that have bene consentaunte of the dethe of Duke of

Burgayne that was laste dede; and also Englysche men, Walysche

men, and Yrysche men, and Schottys, yf anny there be there yn;

ande excepte with John Duras, or callyd ellys Scarbrey,* Ferrande

of Bone beaute,** Olyver de Lawny,® and the gonners, and tho

that were fyrste in the buschementt that fyrste enteryd the Pounte,

the whyche alle shalle be leven sjrmpylly to the wylle of my lorde

the Regaunt.

Also hyt ys a poyntyd, yf any gentylman, or any oihyr of the
bove sayde, nought exceptyde, wylle yelde hym and putt hym in
to the obeysaims of the kyng our soverayne lorde the Kyng of
Fraunce and of Inglonde, anji of my sayde lorde the Regaunt, and
make the othe in suche cas and ' customyd, serve the kyng and my
sayde lorde the Regaunt, as hyr verry lege men, and to werre a
gayne the partyes callyd Armenackys as they dyde a gayne the
kyngys and oure sayde lorde the Regaunt,* hym sylfe shalle ressayve

* So in MS.; J. reads, ** in the most great."
^ Omitted in MS.; supplied from J.

* or callyd ellyi Scarbrey, on callid Stararaj, J.
^ Bone beaute. Barnabro3rt, J.

* Lawny. Lannoj, J. ' So in MS.

' J. reads, " and mj lord the Regent aforeseid, hymaelf mj seid lord the Regent
of his grace shall recejnre hem," &c.

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^D *U23 ^^"™ ^^ ^^^ grace withowte anny [of] * fynaimce makynge or ramsoin,
provyded alle way to done and fiiUefyUe^ they shalle delyvery
caucion ^ and goode sufl^cyaunt pleggys.

Also thys tyme alle tho that benne in the same strenghthe or brygge
of Mylanke, that have or holdyn, or that othyr holdyn in hyr be-halfe,
any towne, place^ or strengy the, dysobeysauns to oure lorde the Kyng
and my sayde lorde the Eegaunt, delyvyr and yelde hem up unto
my sayde lorde or to hys deputys. And with that they shalle doo
alle hyr myght and trewe devyr an gayne hyr parentes and frendys*
yf any there bene, that holde any suche strengythe or towne dys-
obeysauns, that they shulle yeldyin hem up to my sayde lorde, &c.
Ande unto the tyme that they have done ande i-fullefyllyde the
thyngys above sayde, they shalle dwelle in the wylle of my lorde the
Eegaunt, the whiche thyng above sayde and done and fuUefylle
dewly, he shalle ressayve hem as hyt ys above sayde.

Also yf any be in the same sayde brygge or strengythe of
Melancke, havyn and holdyn, in what [place] * that they bene, any
presoners, be they Fraynysche, Englysche, Burgonys, or othyr, of
the oboysaims or servyse of owre lorde the Kyng and of my lorde
the Eegaunt) they shalle yoldyn hem and delyvery hem frely and
quytly, with owte takyng of the sayde personys or of hyr pleggys
any fynaimce or ramsomys.

Also hyt ys apoyntyde that they that bene in the strengytheys of
Pounte Melanke, withynne the day of the morne at the Isowre of
terce, shalle putt or do putt, in a certayne place or two of the
sayde strengythe, alle hyr harnys of werre, with owte any thynge
brokyn or a-payryng. Also they shalle do putt in anothyr certayn
place alle the golde and sylvyr, and sylvyr vesselle and jewellys,
with othyr goodys beyng in the foresayde strengythe, with owtyn
any thynge to holdyn or hydyn, in what place or maner that hyt

* ThiB word is snperflnons.

I* to done and fullefylle, that that done uid f nlfillid, J.

^ canoion. aonsjoo, MS.; corrected from J.

^ Omitted in MS.

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be, they shalle delyvery hem to the comyssourys of oure lorde the Hen. VI.
Eegaunt, uppon payne to lese the benefycys of thys present poynte-
ment and the grace of my sayde lorde the Begaunt.

Also they shalle put in the sayde strengythe in oo place or ij alle
the hors beyng there yn, and alle hyr barneys, for to be delyveryd
on the state and plyghte that they benne nowe at thys tyme, whythe
alle othyr thyngys a-bove sayde, imto the comissurys and deputes of
my sayde lorde the Begaimte, uppon the payne above sayde.

Also uppon the same payne ys tretyd and appoyntyde that
durynge the sayde trete they shalle nought lette or suffer any maner
person to partyn owte of the sayde strengthe of Melanke, nor noo
person to entjrr, with owte leve and lyssens of my sayde lorde the
Regaunt; and uppon the same payne they shalle denounsyn, seale,^
and delyvery to hym or to hys comyssurys the for sayde ^ personys
except, where-of they have any knowynge.

And to that ende that the thinges^ above sayde ben holly fulle-
fyUyde fyrmely and worthely, the above sayde comyssourys and
deputys, in )?at one party and of that othyr, of thys present ap-
po3mtement, have sette hyr sealys, in the fyrste day of Marche, the
yere of oure Lorde M* CCCC xxij.

And in the monjrthe of Apprylle was made the allyaunc^ by
twyne the Eegaunt of Fraunce, the Duke of Bedforde, the Duke of
Burgayne, and the Duke of Bretayne, in maner and forme aftyr
folowynge : — ^

To alle tho that thys present letters shalle see or hyre, Bobert le
Jone, lorde of the Foreste, caunseler of oure lorde the kynge, and
hys bayly of Amyas, sendythe gretynge. We do you to wete that
thys day before us have bene brought, coveryd,® and dylygently

* uale. So in MS.; J. reads " take."

^ the for sayde, for the eayde, MS.; corrected according to J.

* thinget. kyngys, MS.; corrected from J.

^ For the text of this treaty in the original French, see Rjmer, z. 280.

* covered. So in MS.; J. reads'* hare hene, broaght, seen and redde/' which
agrees with the text in Rymer.

CAMD. 60C. X

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154 Gregory's chronicle.

beholdyn, a letter yevyng of ryght excellent pryncys my Lorde
Regaunt of Fraunce, Duke of Bedforde, my Lorde Duke of
Burgayne, and my lorde the Duke of Bretayne, [have] * selyde with
hyr manuelle eygnettys, and enselyd with dowbylle queue of hyr
sealys in redde wex, sygnyde and inselyde also whyj?e emanuelle
sygnys of Mayster John Rynelle, secretary of oure lorde the kynge,
Mayster Quyntyne Menarde, secretary of my lorde the Duke of
Burgayne, and Mayster John Browne,** secretary of my lorde the
Duke of Bretayne, hoole and saufe in sealys and in wrytynge,
as by the specefyynge of the same letters hyt ys shewyd, of whyche
letters the tenoure folowythe:

John Eegaunt of Fraunce, Duke of Bedford, &c., Phylyppe
Duke of Burgayne, &c., the Duke of Bretayne, &c. To alle thot
|?at thys presentt letters shall see we sende gretyng. [We] ^ do you
to welyn that for the consyderacyon of the grette frendeschjrppys
and nygheyng of ly nagys that nowe ar by twyne us, and also mevynge
the maryagys concludyd, aeordyd, and conservyde by-twyxte us,
John Eegaunt of Fraunce and Duke of Bedford and othyr ^ djre
welle belovyde suster a^ cosyn Anne of Burgayne, on that one party,
and of dyre and welle belovyd brothyr Arture Duke ® of Turreyne,
Erie of Monforte and of Ivery, and of oure dyre and welbelovyd
sustyr and cosyn Margarete of Burgayne, On that othyr party, ande
for the goode govemaylle of oure lorde the kjrnge and of realmys of
Fraunce and Inglond, of us and of oure lordeschyppys, landys, con-
treys, and subjectys, we and every one of us sweryn, behotynne, and
promysyn to benne and dwellyng, as longe as we shalle lyve, in
goode and verry love, fraternyte and unyon, that one whythe that
othyr, that welle shalle love and cherysche and holdyn to-gedyr as
bretherynne ar kynnys men, or parentes and goode frendys, we

• This word is superflaons.

** Rymer gi^es his name Jehan le Brins.

• Omitted in MS.; supplied from J.
** othyr'— a. ' So in MS.

•" Arture Unite. Arture of the Duke, MS.

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shalle kepe and defende the honowre J?at one of that othyr as welle Hen. VI.
prevely as a-pertely, with-owte any fraude and dyssymylacyon in * '
any wyse; we shalle do wetyn one of that othyr of alle that we
shalle knowyn and undyr-stonde that may turne and be to profyte
or damage, honour or dyshonoure, or one of that othyr, and of oure
lordeschippys, landys, and contreys, and subjectys ; and yf any persone
telle or make any wronge reporte to us or to any of us one of that
othyr, we shalle geve there to noo credens nor faythe, but we shalle
whytheholdyn smartely agayne us, and eche of us in ryght any
suche that have made that wrongfully reporte, and by goode love
and verry charyte a-none we shalle do to knowe of hym of whom
suche reporte was made, and thereyn for to done that shalle long
to be done be resone.

Also, yf we or any of us have to done or nede for oure worschyppe ^'

or oure contrayes, londys, [and] * lordschyppys to kepe or to defende
a-ga}me any that wolde grevyn or damagynne us or any of us, we and
eche of us shalle be holdynne to helpyn and servynne hym amonge
us that so shalle have nede, whenne we be there to requyryd, with
summys of v C men of armys or of folke of schotte,** whettyr that
may a-vayle or plese or lykyng to hem that so shalle have nede.
And he that shalle be requyryd shalle be holdyn to sende at hys
o wne dysposyssyon hys men or forke * for the fyrst mony the ; and for
the surplus of die tyme that the saudyers shalle serve, the requyrant
shalle ben holdyn to sendyn hem at hys propjrr dysposycyon. And
yf any of us wylle have grete ^ power, he that shalle be requyryd
shalle be hold3m to helpe at the costys and dyspens of the requyrant
as farforthe as he goodely shalle, as he may, hyB contrayes [and] *
lordeschippis resonabely a-fore wamyde.

Also whythe alle oure • myghte, and by ' alle the beste maner

• Omitted in MS. ; supplied from J.

^ folhe of fohotte. " gens de trait " in the original French.

• forhe. So in MS. '^ grete, gretter, J.

• oure, othyr, MS.j corrected from J.
' by, le; corrected from J.

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a!d U23 ^^^^ ^® canne or may devyae for* relevynge of the pore pepylle. of
the realrae that hathe sufferd and sufferythe hyt ^ so moche myschief ;
and for that we shalle spedyn us to doo away the warre of the reahne,
and so sette hyt in pes and reste and tranquylljrte, to that ende that
God there-yn be servyde and worschippyd, and that marchaundyse
there may have the conrs: AUe thys thjmgys we and eche of us
promyse and hotyn to fuUefyUe and trewly kepe as longe as we shalle
ly ve, by the maner above sayde, why the any wyse for any contrarynys
shalle not offende,® undyr the oblygacyon of alle oure goodys mev-
abylle and unmevabylle nowe beynge presente and tho that bene to
come.

In wytnes here of we have done sette oure selys to thys present
lettyrs, and we have sygnyd hem whythe oure owne honde, and
undyr wryte oure propyr namys. Gevyn at Amyens the xvij day
of Aprylle, and the yere of oure Lorde M^ CCCC xxiij. Also sygnyd
by my foresayde Lorde the Eegaunte of Fraunce, Syr John Duke
of Bedforde, and by my Lorde Duke of Burgayne, by my Lorde
Duke of Bretayne. And uppon the foldyng of the same letters ys
wryttyn : " Par ^ mone Senowre le Eegaunt de le realme de Fraunce,
Deuke de Bedeford, John Rynylle. [Par Monsieur le Due de
Burgoigne, Q. de Menart.] • Par ^ mone Senowrys Duke de Bretayne,
J. le Breune. In wytnysse whereof to thys present letters we have
sette to oure sealys of the baylyage of Amyes. Gevyn at Amyes,
the xviij day of the monythe of Aprylle, and the yere of oure Lorde
M^ CCCC xxiij.

Also the same yere Newgate was be gon to be made a Newgate
by the executourys of that famos marchant and merser, Kycharde
Whytyngdone.

■ for. or, MS. J corrected from J.
^ i. e. yet.

« whythe any wy$e .... offende, J. reads, more intelligibly, and according to
the original, '* withonten erer to done the contrarie in any maner."

* Par. Pnr, MS., in both these places; corrected by J. and Rymer.

* Omitted in MS.; supplied from Rymer.

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Wjrlliam Crowmere, I Nicholas Jamys i a o ••<> ^®°' ^^'

Mayre of London I Thomas Wansforde j

Ande that same yere there was a Parlyment at Westemyster,
and that be-ganne the xxj day of October; and in that yere, the xxj
day of Feveryr, was Syr Thomas* Mortymere drawe, hangyd, and
quarteryde, and hys hede smete of at Tybome, and hys body was
buryd at Syn Johnys at Clerkyn-welle and hys herte at Fryer
Menowrys be syde Newgate. And that yere was the batylle in
Vemey, in Perche, the xxvij day of Auguste, by my lorde the
Eegaunte of Fraxince, John Duke of Bedforde, with othyr lordys
with hym of Englysche lordys; and in that batayle was slayne the
Erie Dugelas, the Erie of Bogham, the Erie of Marre, and alle the
Scottys that durste a-byde in the fylde were slayne and take. And
there was take on the Fraynysche syde the Duke of Launsun and
the Erie of Almarre, and many mo othyr knyghtes an squyers were
tak3m and slayne, the nombyr of v m^ Scottys and Armonackys, Ac.

And that same yere, in the monythe of Feverer, the St3rwarde of**
the Kyngys of Scottjrs, whas name was Jamys, weddyd the Erlys .
doughter of Somersett at Synt Mary Overes.

John Mychelle, | Symon Seman j ao •••©

Majrre of London I John Bythewater j

Ande that yere there was a Parljrment att Westemyster; and that
Parlyment beganne the laste day of Aprylle. And at that Parly-
ment the Erie Marchalle was made Duke of Northefolke; and in
that Parlyment was moche altercacyon by-twyne |?e lordys and the
comyns for tonage and poundage. And at that Parljrment was
grauntyd that alle maner of alyentys shulde be put to hoste as
Englysche men benne in othyr londys, and ovyr that condyscyon
was the tonage grauntyd ; the whyche condyscyon was brokyn in
the same yere by the Byschoppe of Wynchester, as the moste
pepylle sayde, he beyng Chaunseler the same tyme, and there-fore
there was moche hevynesse and trowbylle in thys londe. And that

* JSIyr Thomas. The name should be Sir John.
»» So in MS.

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Hen. VI. ycre, the xiij day of Feverer at nyght, were caste many byllys in
A.D. 1426. the cjrtte and in the subbarbys a-gayne the Flemyngys, and sum
were set in the byschoppe ys gate of Wynchester, and in othyr
bischoppys gatys. And in the morowe the Byschoppe of Wyn-
chester sent Eicharde Woodevyle, squyer, to kepe the Towre of
London with men of armys as thoughe hyt hadde bene in the londe
of warre, and so induryd tylle the feste of Symon and Jude nexte
aftyr folowynge. And that yere there were many worthy men of
London apechyde of treson by a false boy Peloure by excytacyon of
the Byschoppe of Wynchester, as many men noysyde and sayde; yf
were trewe or no I remytte me to Gode. And of many moo othyr
townys, as Cauntyrbury, Exceter, and Brystowe, Covyntre, Yorke,
Chester, &c.

Ande that yere the Duke of Gloucester with hys wyffe wentte
into Ennowde; and she was Duches of Holand. And there he lefte
hyr byhynd hym.

Ande the same yere the Byschoppe of Wynchester sonde to
Wyndesore for certayne men of the kyngys howsholde, and lefte
the kyng but with a fewe men, and for alle the prentys * of Courte,
unto Westemyster; and there they come in there beste a-raye; and
thenne he sonde for the Mayre of London and hys aldermen. And
there he restyde many worthy men of the cytte. And that yere
dyde the Erie of Marche in Irlonde, the xviij day of Janyver, in
the castelle of Trynne.

And that yere come the kyngys sone of Portyng-gale in to
Englonde ; and on Mychell&-mas evyn he com to London, and was
loggyd in the byschoppe ys place of London.

Ande in that yere there was a Perlyment at Westemyster, and
that Parlyment be-ganne the laste daye of Aprylle. And that Par-
Ijrment hadde an evylle farjmg ende, to shamefully for to be namy [d]
of any welavysyd man»

* There appears to be an omission here in the MS. We ought donbtless to read,
<' and for all the prentices of the Inns of Conrt." In V. the corresponding passage
is, *' and he sent to the Innes of Court for to come to hjm."

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John Covyntre, I Wylliam Myldrede j j^o iyjo Hen. VI.

Mayre of London i John.Brockeley ' * A.D. 1426.

And that same yere that the mayre rode to Westmyster on the
same daye for to take hys othe, that ys, was the xxix daye of Sep-
tembyr,* whenne that he come home to hys mete with hys aldyrmen
and with hjrs goode comyners, or that they hadde fully ete, the
Duke of Glouceter sende for the mayre and hys aldyrmen that they
shulde come speke with hym; and whenne they come he cargyd the
mayre that he shulde ^ kepe welle the cytte diat nyght and make
goode wache; and so there was, alle that nyghte, for my Lorde
of Glouceter and the Byschoppe of Wynchester were not goode
frendys as in that tyme. And on the morowe certa}me men kepte
the gatys of the brygge of London by the commaundement of the
Lorde of Glouceter and of the majrre. And by-twyne ix and x of
the belle fer come certa3me men of the Byschoppys of Wynchester
and drewe the cha3my8 of the stulpys at the brygge ende in Southe-
worke ys syde, the whiche were bothe knyghtys and squyers, with
a grete mayny of archerys, and they enbaytaylyd them, and made
defens of wyndowys and pypys as hyt hadde bene in the londe of
warre, as thowe they wolde have fought agayne the kyngys pepylle
and brekyng of the pes. And thenne the pepylle of the cytte hyrde
there of, and they in haste schytte in ther shoppys and come downe
to the gatys of the brygge in kepyng of the cytte ande savacyon of
the cytte a-gayns the kyngys enmys, for alle the shoppys in London
were schytte in one howr. And thenne come my Lorde of Cauntyr-
bury ande the Prynce of Portynggale, and tretyd by twyne my
Lorde of Glouceter and the Byschoppe of Wynchester, for they rode
viij tymes by twyne the duke and the byschoppe that day. , And
thonkyd be God, thoroughe goode govemaunce of the ma3rre and
hys aldyrmen, alle the pepylle was sessyde and wentte home ayenne
every mann, and none harme done thorough ealle the cytte, thonkyd
be God.

■ October, accordlDg to V.

^ that he shulde. Repeated in MS.

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Hen. VI. Ande the v day of Novembyr aftyr that, the kynge came fro Eltam

* to London; ande with hym come the Duke of Glouceter and the
Prynce of Portjmggale, and alle the lordys that were a-boute London
that tyme, with the mayre and alle his aldyrmen, and with alle
the trewe and goode comyners of the cytte of London; and
that was with a gode araye. And the x day of Janyver came the
Duke of Bedforde to London, and my lady hys wyffe with hym,
and they come to the Bjrschoppe of W3mchester; and the mayre
and alle the cytte fette hym and mette whythe hym at Merton,
and broughte hym to Westemyster. And in the kyngys palys he
was loggyd, and my lady hys wyffe and the Byschoppe of Wyn-
chester in the abbay faste by hym. And the mayre with the cytte
gaf my lorde of Bedforde a payre of basonnys of sylvyr over gylte,
and M^ marke in them to hys welcome. And yet they hadde but
lytylle thanke.

Ande the xxj day of Feverer be ganne the counsel at Synt
Albonys, but there hyt was enjornyd unto Northehampton. And
the XXV day of Marche nexte aftyr be-ganne the Parlyment at
Layceter, and that induryd unto the fyrste day of June, and every
man was wamyd and i-cryde thoroughe the towne that they shulde
leve hyr wepyn yn hyr ynnys, that ys to saye, hyr swerdys and
bokelers, bowys and arowys. And thenne the pepylle toke grete
battys in hyr neckys and so they wentte. The nexte day they
were chargyde that they shulde leve hjrr battys at hyr ynnys, and
thenne they toke grete stonys yn hyr bosomys and hyr slyvys, and
so they wennte to the Parlyment with hjrr lordys. Ande thys
Parlyment sum men callyd the Parlyment of Battys. And at thys
Parlyment was the kyng made knyght, and xxxv moo whythe hym
of lordys and lordys sonys. Fryste my Lorde of Yorke, the Erie
of Oxjmforde, and hys brother, the sone and the eyre of the Duke of
Northefolke, the sone and the ayre of the Erie of Urmounde, the
sone of the Lorde Hungerford, and Syr John Cha3mye, Chyffe
Justysse of the Kyngys Benche, Syr Wylliam Babyngton, Chyffe
Justys of the Comyn Place, and Syr John June, the Chyffe Baron

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of the Kyngys Chekyr, and many mo, to the nombyr above eayde. Hen. VI.
And the fyrste day of Juylle be-ganne the counselle at London at * '
Westemyster, ande duryd fully iij wekys.

Ande the same yere, the xxviij day of Novembyr, deyde the
Countasse of Huntyngdon at the Colde Herborowe, in London, and
she ys buryd at the Fryer Prechowrys at Ludgate.

Ande same yere, the vj daye of Marche, Arthure of Bretayne
with othyr lordys, the nombyr of x. m^ knyghtys and squyers, made a
saute to the towne of Synt Jakys de Bouerne. Ande there were
8la3me of hem a m* and v c *of men of armys, of the whiche were
viij c legge hamys with hyr cote armourys one of hem.* And he
toke alle hyr ordynauns of gonnys and alle hyr vytayle, with alle
the othyr stoffe that was at the sege, that is to saye, xiiij gonnys,
with the powdrys, and iij C pypys of wyne, and ij C pypys of brede
and floure, and a m\^ panyers with fyggys and raysonys, and herynge,
and othyr stuffe of pavys and tentys, &c.

John RayneweUe the . Robert Arnolde . „

goode Mayre of the j^^^ jj j^^^ j A' v».
cytte of London )

Ande that yere John Duke of Bedforde and Regaunte of Fraunce
wennte in to Fraunce agayne, and the Byschoppe of Wynchester
whythe hym, and they londyd at Calys. And ther the Byschoppe
of Wynchester was made Cardynalle upon oure Lady Daye in
Lentyn, in Saynt Mary chyrche. Ande there was grete solempnyte,
for there come two legatys and broughte hys buUys and hys hatte
from the Pope,® and the Regaunt set on hys hatte ond hys hedde. '

Ande that same yere a theffe that was i-callyd Wille Wawe was
hangyd at Tybome. And that yere was smytte owte many buttys
of Romnaye of Lumbardys makyng in dyvers placys of the Cytte,
for they were corrupte and also they very pyson, &c,

Ande that same yere, the xiiij day of Juylle, cam the Erie of
Saulysbury in to London owte of Fraunce. And that yere there

' one of hsm. upon hem, V. ** mK ij"**, V.

• Pope. This word is crossed throngh.
CAMD. SOC. Y

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A D*"i427 8 ^^ ^ Parlyment at Westemyster, and that beganne a Synt Ed-
wardys day in Lent. And that yere the towre on the draught
brygge of London was be-gonne. And the Mayre layde the fyrste
•tone, and mo othyr aldjrrmen with hym.

John Gedney, ( Robert Otle » j^^^^ -o

Mayre of London f Harry Frowyke |

Ande that yere the Erie of Warwyke com home in to Inglonde
owte of Fraunce, and he was made governer of the kynge.

Ande that yere the Pope • sende into Inglond^ and in to alle
Crystyn londys, a pardon ayenste the erytekys the whyche were in
the londe of Himgery, yn the cytte of Prage; the whyche pardon
was that me[n] shulde every Sonday in the begynnyng of every
monythe shulde goo in processyon, whythe vij Psalmys and the
Letany, and they shulde have a o dayes of pardon unto the same pro-
cessyon. The kyng and the queue, and alle othjrr lordys spyrytualle
& temporalle, wentt on processyon thoroughe London the ij day
of June. And that same day the Erie of Saulysbury toke hys
jomaye towarde Fraunce the secunde tyme; and he schyppyd at
Sondewyche, and he londyd in Normandy, and wente forthe unto
Orlyaunce, and there he layde sege unto the towne as hyt ys a-bove
sayde.

Ande that same yere, the fyrste of September, the Cardynalle
and Bjrschoppe of W3mche8ter came yn to Ingelonde, and soo to
London; and he was ressajrvyd there worthely and ryally of the
mayre and of alle hys bretheryn, for they roode and fette hym yn
to the cytte of London, ande the spyrytualle party whythe pro-
cessyon. And J?at yere hjt was a wete somer for hyt raynyd for
the moste party from oure Lady Day in Lentyn unto the feste of
Mychelmas nexte folowynge. And that yere there was a grete
morayne of bestys, and pryncypally of schyppe, for thie more party of
alle Inglonde, for sheppe deyde ynne every contray of Ingelonde.
Harry Barton, j Thomas Dufhous i a -o

Mayre of London ( John Abbotte J '

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Ande that same yere, the xxx day of October, there was a grette j^^^^^i^
fyre at Baynardeys Castelle, the whyche fyre dyde moche harme.

And the viij day of Novembyr tiie Duke of Northefolke wolde
have rowyde thoroughe the brygge of London, and hys barge
was rentte agayne the arche of the sayde brygge, and there were
drownyde many men, the nombyr of xxx personys and moo of
gentylmen and goode yemen.

Ande the same yere, the xxx day of October, the Erie of
Saulysbury was hurte at the sege of Orlyaunce beforesayde, and
the secunde day of Novembyr he dyde. Ande the fyrste Sonday -of
Advente he was enteryde at Poulys by the Cardynalle of Wynchester
and ij Arche-byschoppys, one of Cantjrrbury and that othyr of Yorke,
that tyme beynge in London.

And the secunde daye of Advente there were ij heretykys objuryd
atte Poulys Crosse, and the iij herytyke commyttyde to preson,
for he was convycte. And that same yere the bonys of Mayster
John Wykclyffe were take uppe and brentte at Lutterworthe in
Layceter schyre there that he was buryde. And thys was done
by the commaundement of )?e pope and alle hys clargye. And
the xij evyn aftyr was i-broughte unto London, and hadde hys
masse at Poulys, and hys bonys buryde at Birsham.

Ande the same yere, the xij day of Feverer, Syr John Fastolfe,
Syr Thomas Ramston, and Syr John Salveyne, toke and slowe • the
nombyr of viij schore Schottys of cote armyvorys, and toke iiij C
Dolfynnys mayne that were towarde Orlyaunce for to have brokyn
the sege, &c.

And that same yere the Duke of Burbone ^ was sworne Englysche
in the kyngys manyr of Eltam besyde Grenewyche. And the xxj
day of Feverer Syr Rycharde Nevyle was made Erie of Saulysbury.
And that same yere there was a stronge thefe that was namyd
Bolton was drawe, hanggyd, and i-quarteryde. And that same

* This is the action commonly spoken of as <* the battle of Herrings."
*^ John Dnke of Bonrbon, who had been a prisoner in England since the battle of
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Hen. VI. yere there was a ryche wedowe i-slayne at Whyte Chapylle; and
the same theflFe that kylde hyr fledde to Syn Gorgys yn Sowthe-
worke; and the Fryday nexte folowynge he for-swore the londe;
and he was a-sygnyd the same way that he slowe the woman, 'and
there wemmen mette with hym and slowe hym in the waye by
twyne the Whyte Chapylle and Algate.

Ande the same yere, the v day of June, there was a fiyer i-slayne
in the Towre of London, and the person of the same Towre with
hym also. And that yere hyt was a dyre yere of come and
pryncypally of whete and of alle maner of vytayle, for a buschelle
of whete was worthe xx d. And that same yere, in the monythe of
May, was the sege of Orlyaunce i-bxoke with the Pusylle, Bastarde of
Burbon, and othyr Armynackys. And there was slayne the Lorde
Molaynys, and Glasdale, squyer, and many moo worthy men. And
the X day of June the Erie of Sowthefolke brothyr, and the Lorde of
Ponyngys sone hys ayre, were slayne at a jomaye be-syde Orlyaunce,
and the Lorde Talbot, and the Lorde Schalys, and Syr Thomas
Ramston were takyn, and the erlys brother of Sowthefolke was
slayne, and many mo othyr, &c.

Ande the xxij day of June the Cardynalle of Wynchester toke
hys jomay, and was purposyd into the londe of Beame; but he
cam not there, but bode stylle yn Fraunce whythe the Eegaunte
that tyme. And on Synte Petrys day aftyr Syr John RadeclyflFe
wentte unto Fraunce unto the Regaunte with a nothyr mayny.
And the same yere, the xxij day of Septembyr, be-gan the Parly-
ment at Westemyster, and hyt duryde unto the xxiij day of
Feverer nexte folowynge; in the whyche Parlyment was grauntyd
that John Raynewelle shulde * be mayre of the stapylle of Callys iij
yere folowynge.

Wylliam Estefylde, I Wylliam Russe j ao •••©
Mayre of London I Raulyn Holande )

Ande that yere, the vj day of Novembyr, the yere of oure Lorde
a M^CCCC.xxix and the Sonday letter or Dominical letter B, Kyng

■ thulde repeated in MS.

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Hany the yj was crownyd at Westemyster on Syn Lenardys day. Hen. VI.
And at the coronacyon was made xxxij knyghtys of the Bathe;
and on the morne aftyr the Pryncys sone of Portynggale was made
knyghte in the Whyte Halle at Westemyster.

Nowe of the solerapnyte of the coronacyon. Alle the prelatys
wente on processyon beryng eche of hem a certayne relyke; and
the Pryor of Westemyster bare a rodde callyde Virga regiuy ande
the Abbot of Westemyster bare the kyngys ceptoure. And my
Lorde of Warwyke bare the kjmge to chyrche in a clothe of
scharlet furry d, evyn as the newe knyghtys of the Bathe wente
whythe furryde hoodys with menyver. And thenne he was led
up in to the hyghe schaffold, whyche schaffolde was coveryd alle
with saye by twyne the hyghe auter and the quere. And there the
kjmg was sette in hys sete in the myddys of the schaflFold there,
beholdynge the pepylle alle a-boute saddely and wysely. Thenne
the Arche-byschoppe of Cantyrbury made a proclaraacyon at the iiij
quaiterys of schaflFolde, sayynge in thys wyse: " Syrys, here comythe
Harry, Kyng Harry the v ys sone, humylyche to God and Hooly
Chyrche, askynge the crowne of thy[8] realme by ryght and dyscent
of herytage. Yf ye holde you welle plesyd with alle and wylle be
plesyd with hym, say you nowe, ye ! and holde uppe youre hondys.**
And thenne alle the pepylle cryde with oo voyce, ** Ye 1 ye I " Thenne
the kynge went unto the hyghe auter, and huraely layde hym downe
prostrate, hys hedde to the auter warde, longe tyme lyyng stylle.
Thenne the arche-byscoppys and byschoppys stode rounde a-boute
hym, and radde exercysyons ovyr hym, and many antemys i-song
by note. And thenne the arche-byschoppes wente to hym and
strypte hym owte of hys clothys in to hys schyrte. And there was
yn hys schyrte a thynge lyke grene taffata, whyche was i-lasyd at
iiij placys of hym. Thenne was he layde a downe a yenne, and
helyd hym with hys owne clothys yn the same maner a-fore sayde.
And thenne the Byschoppe of Chester • and of Rouchester ^ songe

* Bishop of Chester, i. e. of CoTentry and Lichfield. His name was William
Heyworth. ^ John Langdon.

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A.D. 1429. * letany ovyr hym. And the Arche-byschoppe of Cantyrbury
radde many colettys ovyr hym. Thenne the arche-byschoppys
toke hym uppe a gayne and unlasyd hym, and a^noyntyd hym.
Fyrste hys bryste and hys ij tetys, and the myddys of hys backe,
and hys hedde, alle a-crosse hys ij schylderys, hys ij elbowys,
hys pamys of hys hondys; and thenne they layde a certayne
softe thjmge as cotton to alle the placys a-noyntyd; and on hys
hedde they putt on a whyte co3rffe of sylke. And so he wentte
viij dayes; and at the viij dayes the byschoppys dyde wasche hit
a-waye with whyte wyne i-warmyd leuke warme. And the knyghtys
of the (jarter helde a clothe of a-state ovyr hym alle the whyle of
his waschynge. To the fyrste processe, aftyr the oyntynge he layde
hym doune prostrate a-gayne. Thenne the arche-byschoppys raddyn
solempne colettys with a solempne prefas. And thenne they toke
hjrm up a-gayne and putte a-pon hym a goune of scharlette whythe
a pane of ermyn, and Synt Edwarde ys sporys, and toke hym hys
cepter in hys honde, and the kyngys yerde i-callyd Virga regia in
hys othjrr honde, sayyng there-with, Regea eos in virga ferrea/' ^c,
he syttjmg thenne in a chayre by fore the hyghe auter. And
thenne alle the byschoppys seseden with a swerde, they alle syttynge
there hondys thereon, ande alle they saynge thes wordys thys to
hym, Accingere ^ gladio tuo super femur tuum^ potentissime.^ And at
every tjme the kyng answeryd and sayde, Observabo. Thenne toke
they the swerde a gayne fro hym, and layde the swerde on the hyghe
auter. Thenne bought the kyng hys swerde a gayne of Holy Chyrche
for an c s. in signe and in tokyn that the vertu and power sholde
come fyrste fro Hooly Chyrche. Thenne sette they on hys hedde Synt
Edwarde ys crowne. Thenne rose he owte of hys chayre and layde
hym downe prostrate a gayne. And there the byschoppys sayde
ovyr hym many hooly colettys. And thenne they toke hym up and
dyspoylyd hym of hys gere a-yen, and thenne a-rayde hym as a
byschoppe that sholde synge a masse, with a dalmadyke lyke unto

^ ferrea. feria, MS. Pflalm ii. 9. ^ Accingere. Aocinge, MS.

• Psalm xUt. 4 (xIt. 3).

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a tnnjcule with a stole a bowte hys necke, not crossyd, and a pon* Hen. VI.
hys fete a payre of sandellys as a byschoppe, and a cope and glovys
lyke a byschoppe; and thenne sette a yen on hys hedde Synt
Edwarde ys crowne, and layde hym a-pon the schaffolde and sette
hym a sete of hys astate, and ij byschoppys stondyng on every
syde of hym, hclpyng hym to here the crowne, for hyt was ovyr
hevy for hym, for he was of a tendjrr age. And then they be-^anne
the masse, and the Arche-byschoppe of Cauntyrbury songe the masse.
And a nothyr byschop radde the py^ylle. And the Byschoppe of
Worsethyr radde the gospelle at the auter. And at the offiretory
come the kynge downe and made the oblacyon of brede and wyne,
there whythe offerynge a pounde weyght of golde, the whiche
contaynyd xrj marke of nobbelys. And thenne wente he uppe
agayne in to the schaffolde and satte there in hys sete tylle the
iij Angus Dei, and thenne he come downe agayne and layde
hym downe prostrate, sayng there hys Confyteor^ and alle the
prelatys sayde Mhereator.^ And thenne he sate uppe, knelynge with
humylyte and grete devocyon, ressayvyng the iij parte of the holy
sacrament apon the paten of the chalys of the Arche-byschoppe
handys. Thenne there come the By&choppe of London with the
grete solempne chalys of Synt Edwarde and servyd hym whythe
wjme; the whyche chalis by Synt Edwarde ys dayes was praysyd
at xxx.M^ marke; and the Cardenalle of Wynchester and a nothyr
byschoppe helde to hym the towelle of sylke; and so he knelyd
stylle tylle mas was i-doo. Thenne rosse he up a-gayne an yede
a-fore the schryne, and there was he dyspoylyde of alle the orna-
mentys that he weryde, lyke the omamentys of a byschoppe, as hyt
was sayde by- fore; and thenne he was a-rayde lyke a kynge in a
ryche clothe of golde, with a crowne sette on hys hedde, whyche
crowne Kynge Rycharde hadde made for Yajm selfe. And so the
kynge was ladde thoroughe the palys yn to the halle, and alle the
newe knyghtys be- fore hym in hyr a-raye of scharlette; and thenne
all the othyr lordys comynge aftyr hym ; thenne come the othyr

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A.D* m9 lordys comynge aftyr hem. Thenne come the chaunceler with hys
crosse bare heddyd; and aftyr hym come the cardenelle with hya
crosse in hys abyte lyke a chanon yn a garment of rede chamelett,
furryd whythe whyte menyver. And thenne folowyde the Kynge,
and he was ladde by-twyne the Byschoppe of Dyrham and the
Byschoppe of Bathe; and my goode Lorde of Warwyke bare
uppe his trayne. And byfore hym rode my Lorde of Saulysbury
as Constabylle of Ingelonde in my Lorde of Bedforde hys stede,
and thenne my Lorde of Glouceter as Stywarde of Liglonde.
And aftyr hym rode the Duke of Northefolke as Marchalle of
Ingelonde. And before the kynge iiij lordys bare iiij swerdys, ij in
there schaberdys and ij nakyde. And one wa[s] poynteles of the iiij
swerdys above sayde. And as they [were]* sy ttyng at mete the kynge
kepte hys astate. Ande on the ryght honde sate the Cardynalle
whythe a lower astate; and on the lyfte syde sate the chaunceler
and a byschoppe of Fraunce, and noo moo at that tabylle. And on
the ryght honde of the halle at that borde kepte the baronys of the
Fy ffe portys, and soo forthe, clerkes of the Chaunsery ; and on the
lefte honde sate the Mayre of London and hys aldyrmen, and othjrr
worthy comynerys of the cy tte of London. Ande in the myddys of
the halle sate the byschoppys, and justysys, and worthy knyghtys,
and squyers, and soo fyllyde bothe the myddylle tabyllys of the
halle. And at the ryght honde of the halle, uppon a schaffolde,
stode the kyngys of harowdys alle the mete tyme in hjr cote
armorys and hyr crownys in hyr heddys. Ande at the fyrste course
they come downe and wente by fore the kyngys champyon, Syr
Phylyppe Dymmoke, that rode in the halle i-armyde clene as Syn
Jorge. And he proclaymyd in the iiij quarterys of the halle that
the kjmge was ryghtefulle ayre to the crowne of Ingelonde, and
what maner man |?at wolde nay hyt, he was redy for to defende hyt
as hys knyghte and hys champyon. Ande by that offyce he
holdythe hys londys, &c.

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The fyrste course that was i-servyd yn to the halle before the Hon. VI.

Vrrr.nl A.D. U2».

kynge.

The fyrste that come yn was a berys hedde, enarmyde in a castelle
ryalle. Furraenty with venson. Vyant ryalle gylte, Qrosse chare.
Swanne. Capyn stewyde. Hayry n. Grete pyke. Rede lesche
whythe a whyte lyon crownyde there yn. Custarde ryalle with a
lybarde of golde sette there ynue holdyng a flowredelys. Frytoure
like a son, a floure de lysse there yn. Ande a sotelte, Synt Edwarde
and Synt Lewys armyd in hyr cotys of armys, bryngyng thys yong
kyng, Harry the vj, in fygure y-armyde by twyne hem two, in hys
cote of armys, whythe thys reson :

" Loo here ben ij kyngys ryght profytabylle and ryght goode,

Holy Synt Edwarde and Synt Lowys.

Also the branche borne of hyr blode,

Lyv3mge a monge Crystyn moste soverayne of pryse,

Enherytoure to the flowredelysse.

God graunte he may thoroughe grace of Cryste Jesu

The vj** Harry to raygne, and be as wyse,

And hym resemble in kynghode and vertu." Amen.

The secunde coursse unto the kynge syttynge in the halle.

Viaunde blanke. Gely • wrytyn and notyd, Te Deum laudamuB.
Pygge in doory. Crane. Byttore. Cony. Chykynnys endoryd.
Parteryche. Pecoke. Grete breme; leche whythe an antloppe
crownyde there yn, and schynynge as golde. Flampayne pouderyde
with lybardys and flowredelyssys of golde. Frytoure. Custarde.
A lybarde ys hedde why]>e ij esterygys fetherys. And a sotellete, —
The Emperoure and Kynge Harry the v*« in mantellys of garterys,
bryngyng yn Kyng Harry the vj^ yn the same sute, whythe thys
reson imperyalle:

" Ayens myscreaunt[8] the Emperoure Segysmounde
Hathe shewyde hys myghte which is ** imperyalle

• Oely. Golj, MS. *» which is. with hys, MS

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Hen. VI. Sy the Harry soo nobylle and worthy knyghte *

A.r). 1429-30. r r* 1. ^ ii

In Orystys cause yn actys mercyalle.
Cheryschynge the Chyrche, the Lollers hadde a valle
To geve ensampylle to kynges that shulde shewe hyr ryght.
And to thys branche in specyalle

Whylys he dothc raygne to plese God, and drede hys myght
eternalle." •* Amen.

The thyrde course of thys jyalle feste in to the balle.

Quynsys in composte. Blaundsore. Veneson rostyde. Egretys.
Curlewys rostyde. Wodekocke. Ploverys. Quaylys. Snytys.
Grete bryddys. Larkys. Grete crabbys. Lesche i-made as vyolet
colourys. Bakemetes. Chekynnys, i-pouderyde with losyngys, gyite
whythe the flourys of borage. Frytoure cryspe. A sotelte,— Owre
Lady syttynge, and hyr Chylde in hyr lappe, holdyng in every
honde a crowne, Syn Gorge knelyng on that one syde and Synt
Denys in that othyr syde, and they ij presentyng the kynge to
owre Lady whythe thys reson :

" blessyd lady, Crystys modyr dyre,
And Syn Gorge callyd hyr owne knyght;
Hooly Syn Denys, martyr, moste entere,
To the here yj** Harry we present to the in youre syghte,
Shechy the ^ youre grace on hym,
Thys tendyr and whythe vertu hym avaunce,'*
Borne by dyscent and tytylle of ryght
Justely to raygne in Ingelonde and yn Fraunce."

*■ Sf/the Harry — knyghte. Sithen Henry the y^ so noble a knyght was foonde, J.

^ These yerses are not written in lines, and were eyidentlj transcribed from
another copy which was not written in lines either. The copyist has consequently
made some mistakes. Among other things he seems to haye thought that " myghte "
and " knyghte " were rhymes in the poem.

« So in MS. Fabyan reads ** Shedyth; " J. reads ** Shewith of grace on hym your
hevenly light.**

** The reading both in Fabyan and in J. is, " His tender youth with virtue doth
RTannce.'*

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Ande that yere there was a Parlyraent at Westemyster, and thai Hen. VI.
be gan the xxij day of Septembyr and hyt duryd unto the xxiij
day of Feverer nexte folowynge. And in that Parlyment was
grauntyde ij fyftenys to brynge thys yonge kynge in to Fraunce.

And that same yere, the xx day of Janyver, there was an erytyke,
one Rycharde Hundenne, wolpacker, brent at Toure Hylie. And
the xxiiij day of the same mony the there was a batylle in Smethe-
fylde by twyne two men of Fevyrsham, that on John Upton,
pellaunte, and that othyr John Downe, fendaunte. And on Syn
Mathewys daye, in Feverer, the kynge toke hys leve of the cytte
of London, and he rode thoroughe London unto Eltham towarde
Fraunce. And that yere the kynge helde hys Ester at Cauntylbury.
And in Syn Gorgys day in the momyng the kyng schippyd in
the momyng, and he londyd at Calys the same daye at x of the
belle be fore none whythe hys lordys. And the xxiij day of the
monythe of May the Pusylle was takyn be fore Compayne by the
Duke of Burgayne. And the xxx day of May the Arche byschoppe
of Burdowys* dyde in the wyntjrr in London, and he ys buryd at
Whythe Freers in Flete Strete, And in the monythe of Auguste,
the iij day, deyde the Contasse of Urmonde be syde Schene, and the
viij day of the same monythe she was broughte to London and ys
buryde at Syn Thomas of Acrys. And that yere there come
enbassytourys oute of Spayne and also oute of Portynggaie for to
trete whythe oure kynge.

Nicholas Wotton, ( Watyr Chyrchesey ) a o • o
Mayre of London . Kobert Large j

Ande that same yere, the xiij day of Janyver, be-gan the Par-
lyment at Westemyster. And the xix daye of the same monythe
come the bonys of the Lord Bowcer to London and they ben
buryde at Westemyster. Ande the same yere com enbassystourys
from the Kyng of Scottys unto the Parlyment for to trete of pes
bytwyne Ingelonde and Schotlonde. Also the same yere, the
secund day of Marche, there was an erytyke i-brente in Smethe-
• David de Montferrand.

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Hen. VI. fylde whas name was Mayster Thomas Bagle. And the xx day of
the same monythe endyd the Parlyment above sayde- And that
yere in Lentyn deyde Pope * Martyn. And at Estyr aftyrwarde
the Erie of Perche of Mortenne, the Lorde of Fewater, ande the
Lorde of Audeley, wente in to Fraunce with a new retenewe to
the kyng; in the secunde day of May wente the Cardynalle of
Wynchester in to Fraunce, the Byschoppe of Northewyche and
the Lorde Cromewelle why the a nothyr raayny; and the ij day
of June aftjrr went the Erie of Salysbury in to Fraunce why the a
fulle fayre mayny.

Ande that yere there was on namyd hym selfe Jacke Sharpe that
wolde have made a rysynge in the cytte of London, for he wolde
have take pwte the tempendteys of Hooly Chyrche; but the xix day
of May he was take at Oxforde and v moo of secte, and whythe yn
fewe dayes he was drawyd, hangyde, and quarteryde, and hys hede
sete on London Brygge, and hys quarterys i-sent to dyvers townys
of Ingelonde, as to Oxforde, Abjmgdon, and to moo othyr. And
sum of his ^ felowys were takyn at Covyntre, and there they were
drawe, hangyd, and quarteryd; and a woman was be-heddyd at
the galous. Ande the xxiij day of May the Pusylle was brent at
Rone, and that was a pon Corpus Crysty evyn. And the xxiij day
of Julyy there was one Russelle i-drawe, hanggyd, and quarteryde,
and hys hedde was sette on Londyn Brygge, and hys quarterys in
dyvers placys in London; for he wolde have made newe lordys,
dukys, erlys, and baronys, aftyr hys entente & hys oppynyon, Ac.

Ande the same yere, in the monythe of Juylle, the xvij day, the
posteme be-syde the Towre sanke downe into the erthe vij fote
and more. And the same yere, the xj day of Auguste, the Erie
of Warwyke, the Erie of Stafforde, slowe and toke a grete nombyr
of pepylle be-syde Bevys; and ther was take on Potyn and a
scheparde that was namyd le Bergere, and he namyd hym sylfe
hooly and a saynte, for the Frajmysche men hadde a be-leve on

•■ Croased oat, and " byschope *' written in a later hand.
^ **hi8'' inserted in a later hand.

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hym that yf he hadde layde hys honde on a castelle walle that Hen. VI.^
hyt ehulde have fallyn downe by the power of hys holynys.

John Wellys, J John Adyrley i j^^^ ^o^

Mayre of London I Stevyn Browne j

Ande that yere the kyng passyde the see in to Fraunce, and
wente unto Parysse; and he come thedyr the thyrde day of Decem-
byr. And the xiij day of the same monythe he was crownyde at
Parysse; for there he was worthely and ryally ressayvyd as they
cowthe devyse whythe alle the statys of the towne. And there he
hylde hys feste raylly to alle maner of nacyons that were in that
contre, that yf hyt plesyde hem thedyx for to come. And in Syn
Johnys day in the Crystjrsmasse weke the kynge remevyd towarde
Roone, and on the xij evyn he come unto Calys. Ande the xxix
day of Janyver he londyd at Dovyr. And yn Syn Volantynys day
he come unto London; and he was worthely fette in to the cytte
whythe the mayre and hys aldyrmen whjrthe alle the worthy
comyns of the cytte and every crafte in hyr devys.

And whenne the kynge come to Londjm Brygge there was made
a towre, and there yn stondynge a gyaunte welle arayde and welle
be-sene, whythe a swerde holdynge uppe on hye, sayynge thys reson
in Latyn, Inimieos ejus induam conjusione. And on every syde
of hym stode an antiloppe, that one holdynge the armys of
Ingelond and that othjrr the armys of Fraunce. Ande at the
drawe brygge there was a nothyr ryalle toure, there yn stondynge
iij empryssys ryally arayde, whythe crownys on hyr heddys, the
whyche namys folowyn here: fyrste, Nature; the secunde, Grace;
the thyrde, Fortune, presentyng hym whythe gyftys of grace. The
fyrste gaffe hym Soyence an Cunnynge, and the secunde gaffe hjrm
Prosperjrte and Ryches. And on the ryght syde of the emperyssjrs
stode vij feyre maydyns clothyde alle in whyte, i-powderyde
whythe sonnys of golde, presentynge the kyng whythe vij gyftys
of the Holy Goste in the lykenys of vij whyte dovys by fygure
owtwarde, whythe thys resonys : Impleat te JDominus spiritu * sapiencie
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Hen. VI. ^t iniellectus, spiritu consUij et fortitudinisy sciencie et pietatt/s, spiritu
timorys JDomini, And on the lyfte 8yde of thes emperysse stode vij
othyr fayre maydyns in why the, powderyde whythe sterrys of golde,
presentyng the kyng whythe vij gyftys of worschyppe. The fyrste
was a crowne of glorye, the seconde with a cepter of clennysse, the
iij whythe a swyrde of ryght and vyctorye, the iiij whythe a
mantelle of prudence, the v whythe a schylde of faythe, the vj an
helme of helme, the vij a gyrdylle of love and of parfyte pes. And
thys maydens song an hevynly songe unto the kynge of praysynge
and of hys vyctorye and welle comynge home. And whenne he
come unto Comehylle, there yn the vij scyence, and every scyence
schewynge hys propyr comyng wondyrly i-wroughte.

And whenne he come to the Condyte of Cornhylle thero was a
tabernacule, and there yn sytt3mge a kynge whythe a ryalle aparayle.
And on the ryght syde sate the lady of Mercy, ande on the lyfte
syde sate the lady of Troughthe, and the lady of Clennysse hem
inbrasyng with Reson. And by-fore the kyng stode ij jugys of
grete worthynys, whythe viij eergauntys of lawe ther presente for
the comyn profyte representynge of dome and of ryghtuysnysse,
with thys scryptura,

" Honowre of kyngys in every mannys syght
Of comyn custome lovy the equyte and ryghte."

And so the kyng rode forthe an esy passe tylle he come unto the
Grete Condyte, ande there was made a ryalle syghte lyke unto
Paradys, whythe alle maner of frontys of delys. And there were
vjrrgynnys there, drawyng waterys and wynys of joye, and of
plesaunce and comforte, the whyche ranne to every mannys comforte
and helthe. Thes maydyns were namyd : Mercy, Grace, and Pytte.
And in thys Paradys stode ij olde men lyke hevjmly folke, the
whyche were Ennocke and Ely, saluynge the kjmge whythe wordys
of grace and vertu.

And soo rode he forthe unto the Crosse in Cheppe. There
stode a ryalle castelle of jasper grene, and there yn ij grene treys
stondyng uppe ryght, shewyng the ryght tytyllys of the Kyng of

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Inglond and of Fraunce, convaying fro Synt Edwarde and Synt Hen. VI.
Lowys be kyngys unto the tyme of Kjmg Harry the yj**, every
kynge stondynge whythe hys cote armowre, sum lyberdys and sum
flouredelysse; and on that othyr syde was made the Jesse • of owre
Lorde ascendyng uppewarde from Davyd unto Jesu. And so rode
he forthe unto the Lytylle Condyte. And there was a ryalle
mageste of the Trynyte, fuUe of angelys syngyng hevynly songySf
blessynge ande halowynge the kyngys whythe thes resonys in
Latyn wrytyn : AngelU suia ^ mandavit de^ teut custodiant te^ etc.
Longittidinemdierum replebo in eum ^ et ostendam Hit salutare meum,^
And thenne wente he forthe unto Poulys, and there he was res-
sayvyd whythe many byschoppys and prelatys whythe dene and
the quere, and whythe devoute songe, as hyt longythe to a kynge.
Ande so he offerryd there and thankyd God of hys goode speede
and of hys wel&re. And thenne he rode to Westemyster, and there
he restyd hym; and on the nexte day folowjmge the mayre and
the aldyrmen ' whythe a certayne comeners that were worthy men,
and they presentyde the kynge whythe an hampyr of sylvyr and
gylte, whythe a M* ^ there yn of nobellys, &c.

Ande the xij day of May be-ganne the Parlement at Weste-
myster, and that duryd unto the xvj day of Juylle nexte followynge.

And that same yere on Syn Elateryn ys eve was the Lorde
Fewater drownyd, and moche pepylle whythe hym. And moche
harme done in the see of loste of schyppys that were lade whythe
wyne fro Bordowys by the grete tempasse in the see.

* Jeue. Perhaps the writer meant '' Geste," a history; hnt more probably he has
left oat some words. Fabyan speaks here of "the sprynge of Jesse, wherin was
shewyd the genelogy of our blessed Lady."

^ AngelU suU. Angelns snns, MS.

*> de. This word is crossed through as if it were positifely inaccurate, and the
sentence read " Angelas sans mandavit te."
** Longitudinem — in eum. So in MS.

• meum, enm, MS.; see Ps. xc. (xei.) 11, 16.
' aldyrmen. aldyrman, MS.

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^n. VI. John Parnys, f John Olney | ^^^^ ^-o

Mayre of London I John Padysley 3

Ande that same yere be ganne the generalle consayle at Basyle
of alle Crystyn londp; and thcdyr come the Parganers, that ys to ^
saye they of Parge;* and Mayster Perrys, derke, of Ingelonde, a
regeaunte ^ and a herytyke, come from Oxforde thedyr whym ^ as an
herytyke; and there were many artyculys and poyntys of the faythe
determyte ande spokyn. And boo they partyde, and wente aga)m
unto Prage why the owte any lettynge; and the cause was for they
of Prage hadde worthy clerkys of oure faythe in plegge for hem of
Prage for to goo save and come save, and ellys they hadde gon to
the fyre, as moste men suppbsyd.

Ande that same yere, a-non aftyr Ester, was the conselle of
Ingelonde holdyn at Calys by the counselle of Ingelonde, for there
, was the Duke of Bedeforde, Regaunte of Fraunce, and the Duke of

Glouceter, with many moo lordys of the Counselle; and there were
cartayne personys done unto dethe, that ys to wete, iij sowdyers
were banyschyde the towne of Caleys. And the same yere deyde
the Duchyes of Bedforde in Fraunce, the wyffe of the Regyaunte,
whos terment was solempny holde at Syn Poulys in London. And
the same yere the Duke of Bedforde, and Regyant of Fraunce,
weddyde the dukys doughter of Syn Powle the xxij day at Tyruyn.*
And that same yere the kynge hylde hys Parlyment at Wjrste-
mystyr, that be ganne the viij day of Juylle; and soo forthe hjrt
induryd unto Lammas, and thenne hjrt was enjomyde unto Syntte
Edwarde ys day nexte folowynge; unto the whyche Parlyment
came the Regaunt of Fraunce. Ande he come unto London on
Syn Johnys evyn the Baptyste, and was worthely ressayvyde of the
Majrre of London whythe alle hys aldyrmen and worthy comyners
of the cytte. And the same yere the Erie of Hontyngdone wente
into Fraunce whythe a fayre mayny for to kepe the contreye, and

* The heretics of Prague in Bohemia.

^ The writer means, apparently, a renegade, as Fabyan calls him.

• whym. The writer probably meant to have written " with them."
** Theronenne.

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he dyde many &yre jornayes. And that same yere a-non aftyr the Hen. VI.
xij day, the xxix day of Jany ver was the Lorde Fehcwe yi brothyr • ' * *^^'
was stallyd Byschoppe of London.

Ande that same yere apperyde Stella comata, othyr wyse namyde
a blasynge starre^ yn the sowthe weste, etc.

John Brocle, f Thomas Chalton 1 a® *'•

Mayre of London \ John Lynge J

Ande that same yere, the ix day of November^ was the terement
of the Erie of Syn Powle worthely i-holde at the cbyrche of Syn
Poulys in London.

Ande the x daye of Marche the Lorde Talbot wente in too
Fraunce whythe a goodely meyne. Ande that yere at the Counselle
of Basyle deyde the Byschoppe of Bochester.^ And that same yere
was slayne the Erie of Arundelle in France.

Robert Otley, ( Thomas Bameweile| a o ..-o

Mayre of London 1 Symon Eyre J

Ande that yere was the Counselle of Aras of alle Crystjm nacyons
for to trete of pes by twyne thes ij realmys, Ingelonde and Fraunce,
there bejmge iij cardynallys; the Cardynalle of Wynchester for the
realme of Ingelonde, and hys name was Syr Harry Bewforde, the
Kyng of Ingelonde ys onkylle; the Cardynalle of Syn Crosse, and
the Cardynalle of Ciprys. And there was the Duke of Burgayne
and many moo othyr lordys of that party. Ande of Ingelonde
the Erie of Huntyngdone, whythe many othyr spyrytualle and
temporalle of oure partye. But was not to noo profyte, for the
Fraynysche parte was not alle trewe in hyr comyng.

Ande that same yere, the xiiij day of Septembyr^ deyde the
Duke of Bedforde, Begaimte of alle Fraunce, in the castelle of
Rone, by twyne ij and iij in the momynge; and hys body ys buryde
in Nostre Dame Chyrche of Roone. And of hys soule ande alle
Crystyn soulys God have marcy. Amen.

• Robert FitzHogh, LUD. He was appointed bishop in 1431, and consecrated
on the ISth September in that jear.
^ John Langdon.
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Hen. VI. Ande that same yere there was a grete wyntyr and a coHe froste,

" H *^ ^ that duryd fro Syn Kateryns day to Synt Valentynys day next
sewynge, soo that noo schippe myght passe; wherefore the vyntage
^)ome by londe ynne cartys unto London fro the Downys, thoroughe
Kent and ovyr Scheters Hylle, for men provesyde be-fore J?at the
vyntage of GkiscoD arid Gyan shulde come ovyr Scheters Hylle,
and men made but a mocke ther of.

And that yere the kyng hylde a Parlyment at Westemyster,
that duryd fro Mychellemasse unto the Feste of Crystysmas next
folowynge.

Harry Frowyke, ( Thomas Catworthe | a o •^:o

Mayre of London < Robert Clopton J

Ande that same yere, aboute Crystysmas, the Fraynysche parte
gate a yenne Arflewe* and many moo othyr townys. And that
same yere the Fraynysche party in the monythe of Aprylle wanne
a-gayne Parys. And that same yere the Mayre of London sende, by
the goode a-vyse and consent of crafrys, sent sowdyers to Calys,
for hyt was sayde that the Duke of Burgone lay sege unto Calis.
^ And soo he dyd sone aftyr, as ye shalle hyre here after. And at

the Parlyment be-fore hyt was ordaynyde that the Duke of Yorke
shulde in to Fraunce with certayne lordys with hym in stede of the
Segaunt. And whythe hym went the Erie of Salysbury. Ande
the Erie of Mortayne wente to Calys sone aftjrr Estyr. And the
xiiij day aftyr he made a roode in to Flaunders, and he slowe and
toke XV. C. of Flemmjmgys, and many bestys; the nombyr ys more
thenne I canne certaynely reherse. And a-non aftyr the Duke of
Burgone layde hys sege imto Calys whythe a stronge ordynaunoe
and a myghty, with xl M* men and moo. And they made grete
bulworkys, and grete bastylys, and stronge fortyfycacyon. And
on Mary Magdelene ys day the kyng hylde hys counselle at
Cauntyrbury, whythe a grete party of hys lordys.

Ande xij day of Juylle the Erie of Mortayne, the Lorde Camyse,
whjrthe othyr moo knyghtes and squyers went owte whythe a

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goodelj mayny unto the Bastyle, and wanne hjt manfully, and sette a ^i4selT
hyt a fyre; and in that same Bastyle was v. 0. men of armys, of the
whyche v. c. schapyd not a way the nombyr of xij men, as letters
made mencyon that were sente into Ingelonde. Ande a-non the
Duke of Burgone with alle hys oste fledde cowardely; and lie lefte
the moste parte of hys stofie and ordynance be hynde, for he hadde
haste in hys fleynge; for there were lefte many grete gonnys, and
many of othjrr ordynaunce, why the moche vytayle of flesche, flowre,
wyne, here, and a grete nomber of barellys whjrthe botyr, &c.

Ande the xxvj day of Juylle the Duke of Glouceter whythe alle
the substaunce of the lordys of Ingelonde schjrppyde at Sondewyche
with xl. M^ men of alle the contreys of Ingelonde, for every towne,
cytte, or borowe fonde certayne men whythe dy vers lyvereys of the
bagys of the towne, and soo dyd abbeys and pryorys in the same
wyse of alle Ingelonde. And the same day they londyd at Calys«
and there they hylde hyr consaile the Fryday, Satyrday, and
Sonday. And on the Monday he toke hys jomaye in-to Flaunders
warde; ande he rode thoroughe Pycardye and dyd moche harme yn
the contre of Flaunders, for he brent Poper3mg and Belle, ij goode
townys, and many moo othyr vylagys in Flaunders and in Pycardye;
and soo he come home a-yenne to Calys whythe owte any lettynge
of any person, thonkyd be God.

Ande that same yere the Erie of Northehomerlonde made a viage
in-to Scotlonde, and there he made a nobylle jomay.

John Mychell, ( Thomas Morestede ) a o o

May re. of London I Wylliam Gregory J

Ande that same yere Queue Eateryn dyde at Bredmonsey the iij
day of Janyver. And that same yere on of the gatys of Londyn c/-^
Bryge and one of the g[r]ettyste arche of the same bryge, fylle a
downein to Temys wondyrfuUy ; thonkyd be God, noo man, woman,
nor chylde i-hurte nor perchyde. And that yere the kynge or-
daynyde the Parlyment to be holde at Caumbryge, but aftyr warde
by goode counselle hjrt was tornyde and holde att Westemyster; the
whyche Parlyment be ganne the xxj day of Janyver. And to that

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Hen. VI. Parlyment come the Byschoppe of Tyrwynne ande the counselle of
A.D. U37-8. ^j^^ gj.j^ of Annanacke.

Ande the ix day of Feverer Quene Kateryn aforesayde was
broughte to Powlys yn London, and there sche hadde a solempne
deryge ande a masse on the mome. And thenne she was hadde
unto Westemyster. And the iij day aftyr she was worthely enteryde
and buryde in Oure Lady chapylle at Westemyster in the Abby; of
whos soule God have mercy.

Ande the same yere the Kjmge of Schottys was traytnrly slayne
in hys owne londe, of a false squyr and the squyer ys sone, of the
same londe, that was namyd Robert Grame. The whyche squyer
and hys sone were take anon aftjrr, and there they were playnely
put to dethe, as welle worthy was, to be traye any kynge or
prynce.

And the same yere dyde Quene Jane* at Averyng at the Bowre,
in Esex, in the monythe of Juylle, and she ys buryde at Cauntyr-
bury whythe hyr hosbonde, Kynge Harry the iiij"**. Ande the
same yere the kyng put downe the Mayre of Norwyche, and cer-
tayne aldyrmen were devydyd unto othyr certayne placys, sum to
Lynne and sum to Cauntjrrbury. And John Wellys, Aldyrman of
London, was made Warden of Northewyche.

Ande the same yere the Erie of Warwyke went into Fraunce the
xxix day of Auguste; he schippyd at Portysmouthe, and the Duke
of Yorke come home into Ingelonde owte of Fraunce.

Wylliam Estefylde, T Wylliam Chapman i a o -o
Mayre of London I Wylliam Halys J

Ande that same yere deyde the Emperowre of Rome,** and hys
I termentte was solempnly holde at Syn Poulys at the cytte of
^ ^ London the iij day of May, there beynge the kynge and hys lordys.
And the same yere on Estjrr day there was on John Gardyner take
at Synt Mary at the Axe in London, for he was an herytyke; for
whenne shulde have benne houselyd he wypyd hys mouthe whithe
a foule clothe and layde the oste there yn ; and so he was takyn by

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the person of the chyrche, and the xiiij day of May he was i-brent Hen. VL
in Smethefylde. ^^' ^*^^^-

Ande the same yere the Erie of Mortayne was made Erie of
Dorsette, and he was sentte unto Anjoye and Mayne.

And the same yere there was a grete conselle at Galys, there
beynge in oure party the Cardynalle Arche-byschoppe of Yorke and
many moo spirjrtualle and temporalle lordys. And on that othyr
party the Duchyes of Burgone and many moo lordys, bothe
q>yrytualle and temporalle.

Ande the same yere the iiij day of June certayne men of Eentte
were a-reste at Maydestone for ryejmge, and v. of hem were drawe,
hanggyde, and quarteryde, and be-heddyde, and hyr heddys were
sette on Londyn Brygge; and sum of hyr heddys at Cauntyrbury
and in othyr certayne townys in Eente a boutc in the schyre, for
to cause men to be ware. And that yere was grete dyrthe of come,
for a buschcUe of whete was worthe ij s vj d. And that yere was
grete pestylaunce, and namely in the northe contraye. And the
same yere deyde the Countasse of Stafforde, and the Gierke of the
Rollys, Mayster Jon Franke; and he was holde one of the rycchyste
men that deyde many dayes be-fore.

Stevyn Browne, ( Hewe Duke 1 a o ••©

Mayre of London I Nychol Yoo i

Ande the same yere duryde the dyrthe of come and of alle
maner of grayne thoroughe Ingelonde. And the laste day of Aprylle
deyde the Erie of Warwyke at Roone. Ande the same yere the
Cardynalle Archebyschoppe of Yorke,* the Byschoppe of Northe-
wyche,** the Byschoppe of Syn Davys * and many othjrr docters, and
the Duke of Northefolke, the Erie of Stafford, the Lorde Bowcer,
and the Lorde Hungerforde, with a grete majmy, wente unto Calys;
and they hadde the Duke of Orlyaunce with hem for to trete of
pes by twjme Ingelonde and Fraunce. And there mette with hem
the grete lordys of Fraunce, that ys to wyte, of spjrrytualle and
temporalle, the Archebyschoppe of Raynys,* whythe many moo

* John Kemp, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury.

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A D^li^io ^*^^ byschoppys, the Erie of Wendon,* tte Bastarde of Orlyaunce,
and many oihyr lordys of Fraunce; and thedyr come the Byschoppe
of Spayne and of Colayne, and many moo othyr djrvers contreys
that com fro the Counselle of Basylle.

Ande the same yere in the same tretys the Fraynsche party
wanne Mewys in Bry ayenne, in the whyche was Captayne Syr
Wylliam Chambyrlayne. And the same yere the Erie of Huntjmg-
done wente unto Gyenne whythe a grete navy. And the same yere
went Syr [Richard] ** Woodevyle in to Normandy and Syr Wylliam
Peytowe, and many moo othyr, whythe a fayre mayne. And that
same yere, a-pon Wytsondaye, the kyng made knyghtys at Kenyng-
ton, that ys to wete, the sone and hay re of the Lorde of Huntyngdon,
and the sone ande the ayre of the Erie of Aroundelle, Lewys John,
and Wylliam Estefylde, marchaunt of London. And the mayre
ordaynyd that yere that comyn wemmen shulde were raye hoodys,
and bawdys to the pelory. And thys was cryde the v day of
Auguste the same yere, and so hyt was done at dyvers tymys. And
the same yere, att the generalle counseylle, the Emperoure of
Costantyne the Nobylle® and hys sone, whythe alle the clergy of
Gryke, obeyd hym unto the Chyrche of Rome of certayne artyculys
of the fay the ; and they hylde more thanne v. c. yere, and alle the
realme of Ermonye * that haddyn ben owte ix. c. yere, fro the beleve
not on the Hooly Goste, nor on the sacrament, nor noo Pjrrgatorye,
nor noo sufiragys of Hooly Chyrche, as prayers and almysdedys.
And there were of Rome viij cardynallys and moo thanne v. c. myters,
whythe owte docters. And thus was proclaymyd at Powlys Crosse
the xxviij day of August above sayde, etc.

Robert Large, ( Robert Marchalle i ao •••o

Mayre of London i Phylyppe Malpas j

Ande that yere was the Parlyment concludyd, and ordaynyd that
Lumbardys sholde goo to hoste. And that same yere alyens were
putte to hyr fynaunce to pay a certayne a yere to the kynge. Also
in the same yere there were ij traytours hangyde on a payre of

• VeDddme. •» Omitted in MS.

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galowys that were made in Temys for the same purposse, be syde Hen. VI.
Syn Kateryns. ^^' ^**^^'

And that same yere there was a preste i-callyd S3rr Rycharde
Wyche and hys servand brent atte the Tourehylle, for the whyche
there was moche trobil a-monge the pepylle, in soo moche that alle
the wardys in London were assygnyd to wake there day and nyght
that the pepylle myght nought have hyr ylle purpose as at that
tyme.

John Patesle, * r John Sutton i . . ^

Mayre of London ( Wylliam Wetynhale J

Ande in that same yere the Duke of Orlyaunce made hys othe at
Westemyster and there uppon ressayvyde the blessyd sacrament
on Cryspyn and Cryspynyan ys day. And the Fryday aftyr
AUehalowyn day he went towarde Fraunce, and whythe hym he *
hadde Syr John Corneuale, knyght, and many othyr knyghtys
and squyers. Ande that same yere werre the barrys in Smethefylde
newe made, for Syr Rycharde Woodevyle, knyght, was chalengyd
of a knyght of Spayne for to donne certayne poyntys of armys in
the felde.

Ande the xvj day of May the Duke of Yorke, the Erie of
Oxynforde, the Erie of Ewe, the Erie of Ormounde, and Syr
Bichard "Woodevyle, whjrthe many othyr knyghtys and squyers,
toke the way towarde Fraunce, and they schippyd at Portysmouthe.

And the same yere the Crosse in Chepe was take a downe and a
newe sette uppe there ]?at the olde Crosse stode. And in the same
yere there were take certayne traytourys, the whyche purposyd to
slee oure lege lorde the kyng by crafte of egremauncey,* and there
instrumentys were opynly shewyde to alle men at the Crosse in
Powlys chyrche yerde a-pon a schafTolde i-made there-for. Att the
whyche tyme was present one of the same tra3rtours, whiche was
callyd Rog^r Bulbroke, a clerke of Oxforde, and for that same
tresoun my Lady of Glouceter toke sayntwerye at Westemyster;
and the xj day of Auguste thenne next folowynge she toke 'pe way

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Hen. VI to the castelle of Lesnes. And on Syn Symon and Jude ys eve
was the wycche be syde Westemyster brent in Smethefylde, and on
the day of Symon and Jude the person of Syn Stevjmnys in
Walbroke, whyche that was one of the same fore sayde traytours,
deyde in the Toure for sorowe.

Bobert Clopton, f Wylliam Combys \ a o --.o

Mayre of London I Rycharde Ryche J

Ande in that same yere the Lady of Glouceter for the same treson
she was juggyde by the spyrytualle lawe to iij sondyr or dyvers
placys, that ys to wete, on Mondaye, the xiij daye of Novembyr,
to Powlys; and on the Wanysday i-sygnyd unto Crychyrche; and
on the Fryday nexte folowyng to Synt Mychellys in Comehylle.
And on the Satyrday next folowjmg was Roger Bulbroke hanggyde.
and drawe, and quarteryde at Tybume.

Ande the xxx day of Janyver was certajme poyntys of armys
done in Smethefylde by twytie a knyght of Catelan and a Engelysche
squyer, i-callyde Syr John Ascheley ; of the whiche tyme the sone
of the sayde knyght, in presens of alle the pepylle there, was made
knyght opynly by the kyngys owne hondys. And the sayde John
Ayschelay also was made knyght att the same tyme.

Ande die xxv day of May my Lorde Talbot toke hys Way towarde
the see, for to passe yn to Fraimce whythe hys retenowe. Ande in
that same yere deyde John Wellys, the nobylle Aldyrman, and sum
tyme Mayre of London.

John Hatherley, f Thomas Bemound "i a ^ 'o

Mayre of London \ Rycharde Nordon j

Ande in that same yere there was a pynner hyngge hym sylfe on
a Palme Sondaye. And he was alle nakyd save hys breche; and
then he was caryd in a carte owte of the cjrtte.

And that same yere was a woman of Westemyster brentt at Toure-
hylle for kyllynge of hyr hosbond.

Ande that same yere there was founde in a walle in the Gylhalle
a certayne sum of mony, and alle in pense, and every peny weyde
j d. ob., and sum a goode dele more, and sum more; and hyt was of

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manj dyvcrs cunp, for sum were made yn London and sum in Hen. VI.
Cheschyre, and sum in Lancaster, and in many otliyr dyvers placys
of the londe, but alle was the kyngys owne kune.

And on the same yere, the viij day of Septembyr, there was done
a grete yyage yn Fraunce by the Duke of Somesette and his
retynowe; and at the same viage were slayne and takyn to the
nombyr of iij. Ml vij. c, whereof were ix lordys and a squyer, whyche
that was a grete captayne.

Thomas Catworthe, r John Norman 1 a o ^^::o

Mayre of London ( Nicho' Wyfolde i

Ande in that yere were streppettys* i-dreve a-boute the Cytte of
London whythe raye hodys. And in that same yere one on the
pelerry, the whyche wrought by a wycckyd spyryte, the whyche
wascallyd Oberycom, and the maner of hys proces and werkyng was
wretyn and hanggyd a bowte hys necke whenne he was in the pellery.
Harry Frowyke, ( Sthevyn Foster | ^o xxiij^

Mayre of London I Hewe Wyche J

Ande that same yere the Duke of Sowthefolke and othyr whjrthe
many worthy knygh^ and squyers wentte ovyr the see to fette
home the queue.

Ande the same yere was Syn Poulys stypylle fyryd a-pon Candyl-
maa evyn whythe the lyghtenynge. And that same yere, die
X day of October, was ordaynyd by the archebyschoppys and
bysschoppys, and there uppon proclaymyd oppynly ynne chyrchys,
that the day of Synt Edward shulde be kepte hooly day fro that
day forthewarde.** And yn the same yere a schippe y-namyde
Grace de Dyeu, whyche was chargyd of goode of Sprusse, sche
was loste a lytylle whythe jn Temys. And yn the same yere come
dyvers enbassytourys of lordys of Fraunce for to trete of the pes.
And that same yere was the Erie of Warwyke nutde Duke of
Warwyke. And a pon the fyrste day of Aprylle Quene Margarete

* Stmmpets.

^ ProlMiblj the TraniUtion of St. Edward the King and ConlsMor, which was cm
the 13th October.

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A..^ 1446. loi^<iy<i ^t Portysmowthe, and a-pon the x day of the same monythe

flche was weddyd at a ly tylle velage in Hampschyre i-namyd • ■

And a gajme hyr comjmge to London were ordaynyde many
notabylle devysys in the cytte, as at the brygge of London,
and in othyr dyvcrs placys, at Ledynne halle, and in Corne-
hylle, and in iiij placys yn Chepe, that ys to say, at the Grete
Condyte, and at the Standarde, and at the Crosse, and atte the
Lytylle Condyte, And uppon Thorsday, the xxyj day of May,
the kyng made xlvj Knyghtys of the Bathe yn the Towre of
London. And uppon the morowe, that was the Fryday, lordys
of the realme, whythe nobylle and grete and costelowe araye,
the Mayre of London and the aldyrmen in scharlet, whythe alle the
craftys of London in blewe, wythe dyvers dyvysyngys, every crafte
to be knowe from othyr, rydyng agayne Quene Margarete and
brought hyr unto the Toure of London, the quene havjmge whythe
hyr xvij charys with ladys. And a-pon the morowe, the Satyrday,
she was brought thoroughe London syttyng in a lytter by twyne
ij goode and nobylle stedys i-trappyd with whyte satton, and sche
was conveyyde unto Westemyster. And apon the morowe the
Sonday was. the coronacyon, and ij dayes aftjrr there was grette
revylle of justys of pes in the sayntewery at Westemyster, &c.

Ande in the monythe of Juylle next folowynge there come
owte of Fraunce a grette enbasset of lordys to trete by-twyne ij
realmys of Ingelonde and of Fraunce and for djrvers contreys to
hem, <&c.

Symon Ayre, f John Derby | ^o xxiiij*.

Mayre of London \ Geffrey Fyldyng J

Ande in that same yere was a Parlyment holdyn at Westemyster,
and same yere there was on Wylliam Nete, yeman of the Quenys
charyetes, drawyn and hanggyd in Horse Downe for sleyng of a
damselle callyd Johne Gooche.

Ande that same yere there was a pechyng i-made uppon the

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Erie of Ormounde* by the pryour of Kylmayn** for certayne poyntys ^^{^llj
of treson^ the whyche was takyn in to the kjmgys grace, where •
uppon hyt lykyd oure soverayne lorde to graunte a generalle
pardon unto the sayde Erie. But nevyrtheles the sayde pryour
appayryde in Smethefylde the iiij day of the monythe of October, as
hyt was apoyntyde, fulle clenly harnyssyd, redy whythe alle hys fetys
and whythe alle hys wepyns, kepynge the fylde tylle hyghe none.

And that same yere the Prevy Sealle " comjmge fro enbassetry
owte of Fraunce was gretely comberyd with fortune of the see, in
soo nioche that many of hys men were drownyde. And in that
same yere was a nothyre chalenge i-made in Smethefylde by on
Arblastre and a-nothyr man of London^ but hyt was putte of by
trete, and the same Arblastre ranne yn to the contente.

Ande that same yere my Lorde of Glouceter wente yn-to a place
i-callyd the Vyse. And that same yere was a gemarde be-gon for
pore pepylle of the contraye that myght nought utter hyr graynys;
and hjTt was made by the coste and goodys of Symon Ejrre, Mayre
of London.

John Olney, f Robert Home | j^^^^ ^^^^^

Mayre of London 1 Geffray Bolayne J

Ande in that same yere there was an armyrer and hys owne
man fought whythe yn the lystys in Smethefylde the laste day of
Januer, ande there the mayster was slayne and dyspoylyde owte
of hys hamys, and lay sty lie in the fylde alle that day and that
nyght next folowynge. And thenne afty[r]ward, by the kyngys
commaundement, he was d[r]awyn, hanggyde, and be-heddyde,
and hys hedde sette on London Brygge, and the body hynggyng
a-bove erthe be-syde the towre.

Ande that same yere was a Parlyment be-gon at Byry; and that
same yere there was grete wache at Syn Donstonys in the Este, by
the sofferens of oure sufierayne lorde the kyng, in every warde of

* James Butler, fourth Earl.

^ Thomas Fitsgerald, grandson of Thomas Earl of Kildare, was at this time
Prior of the Knights of St John at Kllmainham in Ireland.

* Adam de Moleyns, Bishc^ of Chichester.

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Hen. VI. London alle the xvj dayes in Crystysmasse by the coramaunde-
ment of the kynge. Ande at Schroffe tyde nexte aftyr there
was ordaynyd a Parlynient at Synt Edmondys Bury; ande att the
comjmg of the goode Duke Umfray, sum tyme Duke of Glouceter,
uppon the Satyrday anon as he was a lyght of hys hors he was
a-restyde of dyvera lordys for treson by commaundement of the
kyng, and men sayde at that tyme. And uppon the Thursse-
day next folowynge he dyssesyd ande passyde owte of thys
wrecchyde and false trobely worlde. And he ys buryde at Syn
Albonys.

Ande uppon Ester nexte folowynge, Harry Byschoppe of Wyn-
chester and Cardjmalle, and lythe enteryde at Wynchester. And
a-non eStyr the dethe of the Duke of Glouceter there were a reste
many of the sayde dukys* to the nombyr of xxxviij squyers, be-syde
alle othyr servantys that nevyr ymagenyd no falsenys of the ** that
they were put a-pon of. And on Fryday the xiiij day of Juylle
nexte folowynge by jugement at Westemyster, there by fore v
personys were dampnyd to be drawe, hanggyd, and hjrr bowellys
i-brente by fore hem, and thenne hyr heddys to ben smetyn of,
ande thenne to be quarteryde, and every parte to be sende unto
dyvers placys by assygnement of the jugys. Whyche personys
werethes: Arteys the bastarde of the sayde Duke of Glouceter,
Syr Rogger Chambyrlayne knyght, Mylton squyer, Thomas Har-
berde squyer, Nedam yeman, whyche were the sayde xiiij day
of Juylle i-drawe fro Syn Gorgys thoroughe owte Sowthewerke
and on Londyn Brygge, ande so forthe thorowe the cytte of
London to the Tybome, and there alle they were hanggyde, ^and
the ropys smetyn a-sondyr, they beynge alle lyvynge, and thenne,
ar any more of any markys of ezcecusyon were done, the Duke of
Sowthefolke brought them alle yn generalle pardon and grace from
our lorde and soverayne Kynge Harry the vj**.

Also that same yere dyssesyde the Duke of Exceter, and he was
enteryd at Syn Eateryns.

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Stephjm Browne, f John Cauntelowe ^ j^o xxvl^^• AS'liiS-io.
Mayre of London I Wylliam Marowe, J

Ande that same yere the Duke of Yorke, Kycharde Plantagenet,
was exsylyde in to Irlonde for hys rebellyon, as thoo a boute the r^ '^
kynge informyde hym, fully ande fiJsely as hyt was** aftyr warde
i-knowe.

And that same yere was a tretys of trewys takyn whythe the
Schottys by Mayster Adam Molaynys for iiij yere, that tyme he
bejmg enbas3rtor in to Schotlonde, and aftyr that Prevy Seale, ande
thenne i-made Byschoppe of Chychester, and with ynne shorte
tyme aftyr put to dethe.

Thomas Chalton, ( Thomas Canjmgys 1 .0 xxv'ii®

Majrre of London I John Hewlyn J

Ande that same yere was the moste pa[r]te of Normandy y-loste,
and a Parlymentte was at Westemyster. In the mene whyle was the
[city]*^ of Boon, Mustarde Vylers,and Herflete i-loste by fore Crystys-.
masse, and thenne the Parlyment was prolohgyd tylle aftyr Syn
Hyllary ys day. Ande at that tyme beyng many sowdyers at Portys-
mowthe, the whyche haddyn ttdce the kyngys wagys for to pass ovyr
the see. And anon aftyr Crystysmabse was sende unto the see syde
the Prevye Sealle, whyche was callyd Mayster Adam Molaynys, to
have take the monster at the see syde, he beynge that tyme Byschoppe
of Chychester. Ande for hjrs covetysse, as hyt was leportyde,
schippemen put hym to dethe, and sum mys-a-wysyd men of the
sowdyers holpyn welle there-to. And thys was done at Portys-*
mouthe.

Ande aftyr Synt Hyllary ys day the Parlyment was remevyd
unto Laycetter; ande yn the mene tyme was Caneyoldyn, ande alle
the remenaunt of Normandy, savyng Chyrborowe. And the Doke
of Sowthefolke was a-pechyde at that Parlyment, he beynge at
London, of verry graunte treson, and of many poyntys; among alle
othyr, for that he schulde have soldo Normandy, and also for the
dethe of that nobylle prynce the Duke of Glouceter, and for many

• The 26th jear is omitted. ^ was repeated in MS. * Omitted in MS.

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H«i. "VX othyr poyntys of treson, for the whyche he was exylyd owte of
Ingelonde for certayne yerys. Ande at hys passynge ovyif the see
warde he was mette with by-twyne Dovyr and Calys by dyvers
schyppys, of the whyche was here Admyralle Nycholas of the
Towre; and yn that shyppe soo beyng in the see they smote of hys
hedde of the fore sayde Duke of Sowthefolke, and they caste bothe
body and hys hedde in to the see. And aftyr that hyt was takyn
uppe and brought unto the towne of Dovyr, and aftyr from thens.
brought unto Wynkylfylde in Sowthefolke, and there hyt ys'
i-buryde; whos name was Syr Wylliam Pole. r

Ande aftyr that the comyns of Kent a rosse with certayne othyr
^^^hyrys, and they chesse hem a captayne, the whyche captayne'
compellyd alle the gentellys to a-rysse whythe hem. Ande at the
ende of the Parlyment they come whythe a grete myght and a
stronge oste unto the Blacke hethe^ be syde Grene wyche, the
nomber of xlyj M'; and there they made a fylde, dykyd and stakyde
welle a-bowt, as hjrt ben in the londe of wa^e, save only they kepte
ordyr among them^ for als goode was Jacke Bobyn as John at the
Noke, for alle were as hyghe as pygysfete, unto the tyme that they
shulde comyn and speke with suctie statys and massyngerys as were
sende unto hem ; thenne they put alle hyr pouer unto the man that
namyd hym captayne of alle hyr oste. And there they a-bode
certayne days too the comyng of the kynge fro the Parlymentte al
Leyceter. Ande thenne the kjng send unto the captayne dyvers
lordys bothe spyrytualle and temporalle, to wytte and to have
knowleche of that grette assembelynge and gaderjmg of that grete
a[n]d mysavysyd feleschyppe. The captayne of hem sendyng
worde agayne unto the kynge, that hyt was for the wele of hym
oure soverayne lorde, and of alle the realme, and for to dystrye
the tray tours beyng a-boute hym, whythe othyr dyvers pojmty^
that they wolde see that hyt were in schorte tyme a-raendyde.
Uppon whyche answere that the kyng,» thedyr sent by hys lordys
dyd make a crye in the kyngys name of Engelonde that alle the

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kyngys lege men of Engelonde shulde a-Toyde the fylde. And Hen. VI.
a- pott the nyght aftyr they were alle voydyd and a-goo. "

The mome aftyr, the kynge rode armyd at alle pecys from Syn
John ys be-syde Clerkyn welle thoroughe London; and why the
hym the moste party of temporalle lordys of thys londe of Enge*
lond in there a beste raye. Aftyr that they were every lorde
whythe hys retenowe, to the nombyr of x M^ personys, redy as they
alle shulde have gon to batayle in to any londe of Crystjm-dome,
whythe bendys a-bove hyr harnys that every lorde fehulde be
knowe from othyr. And yn the (owarde, as they wolde have
folowyde the captaytie, was slayn Syr Umfray Stafforde and
Wylliam Stafford, squyer, one the mannylste man of alle thys
realme of Engelonde, whythe many moo othyr of mene personys at
Sevenocke, in Kentt^ in hyr oute rag3mg fro hyr oste of our
soverayne lordys the kyng, Harry the yj^. And the kyng loggyd
that nyghlf at Grenewyche, and sone aftyr every lorde whythe hys
retynewe rood home in to hyr contraye.

Ande aftyr that, uppon the fyrste day of Juylle, the same cap-
tayne come agayne, as the Eenttysche men sayde, but hyt was
a-nothyr that namyd hymselfe the captayne, and he come to the
Blacke Hethe. And uppon the morowe he come whythe a grette
hostc yn to Sowtheworke, and at the Whythe Herte he toke his
^<)gg7Rge* And a-pon the morowe, that was the Fryday, a gayn
evyn, they smote a sondyr the ropys of the draught brygge and
&ught sore a manly, and many a man was mortheryde and kylde in
that conflycte, I wot not what [to] • name hyt for the multytude of
ryffe raffe. And thenne they enteryde in to the cytte of London as
men that hadde ben halfe be*syde hyr wy tte ; and in that ftirynys they
wente, as they sayde, for the comyn wele of the realme of Ingelonde,
evyn strayght unto a marchaunte ys place i-namyd Phylyppe
Malpas of London. Yf hyt were trewe as they surmysyd aftyr tiier
doyng, I remytte me to ynke and pauper — DeuB scit et ego noru
But welle I wote that every ylle begynnynge moste comynly hathe

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A^' Tab *^ y^^® ^'^dy^gj *^d eyery goode begynnyng hathe the wery goode
endyng. Proverbium : — Feluv principvum finem facit esse beatum.
And that Phylyppe Malpas was aldyrman, and they spoylyd hym ande
bare a-way moche goode of hys, and in specyalle moche mony, bothe
of sylvyr and golde, the valowe of a notabylle som, and in specyalle
of marchaundys, as of tynne, woode, madyr, and alym, whythe grette
quanty te of wollyn clothe and many ryche jewellys, whythe othyr
notabylle stuffe of fedyr beddys, beddyng, napery, and many a
ryche clothe of arys, to the valewe of a notabylle sum — neeeioj set
Deua omnia scit

Ande in the evenynge they went whythe hyr sympylle captayne
to hys loggynge; botte a certayne of hys sympylle and rudemayny
a-bode there alle the nyght, weny [n]ge to them that they hadde wytte
and wysdome for to have gydyde or put in gydyng alle Ingelonde,
alsosone at they hadde gote the cytte of London by a mysse happe
of cuttynge of ij sory cordys that nowe be alteryde, and made ij
stronge schjmys of yryn unto the draught brygge of London. But .
they hadde othyr men with hem, as welle of London as of there .
owne party. And by hem of on parte and of that othyr parte they
lefte noo thjmg unsoffethe,* and they serchyd alle that nyght.

Ande in the mome he come yn a-gayne, that sory and sympylle
and rebellyus captayne whythe hys mayny; that was Satyrday, and
hyt was also a Synt Martyn ys day,** the dedycacyon of Synt
Martynys in the Vyntry, the iiij day of Juylle. And thenne
dyvers questys were i-sompnyd at the Gylhalle; andther Robert
Home beynge alderman was a-restyde and brought in to Newegate.
And that same day Wylliam Crowemere, squyer, and Schery.fie
of Eentt, was be-heddyde in the fylde whythe owte Algate at J>*
mylys ende be-syde Clopton ys Place. And a nothyr man that
was namyde John Bayle was be-heddyd at the Whytte Chapyll^.
And the same day aflyr-non was be-heddyd in Cheppe a-fore t^e
Standard, Syr Jamys Fynes, beyng that tyme the Lorde Saye and
Grette Treserer of Ingelonde, the whyche was brought oute of the
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Toure of London unto the Gylde Halle, and there of dyvers tresona ^^\l^
he was exampnyd, of whyche he knowlachyd of the dethe of that
notabylle and famos prynce the Duke of Glouceter. And thenne
they brought hym unto the Standard in Cheppe, and there he
ressayvyd hys jewys and hys dethe. And so forthe alle the iij
heddys that day smetyji of were sette uppon the Brygge of London,
and the ij othyr Eeddys takyn downe that stode a-pon the London
Brygge by-fore. And at the comyng of the camptayne yn to
Sowtheworke, he lete smyte of the hedde of a strong theflF that was
namyd Haywardyn. And uppon the morowe the Sonday at hyghe
mas tyme a lette to be heddyd a man of Hampton, a squyer, the
whyche was namyd Thomas Mayne. And that same evyn Londyn
dyd a rysse and cam owte uppon hem at x [of] • the belle, beyng that
tyme hyir captaynys the goode olde lorde Schalys and Mathewe
Goughe. Ande from that tyme unto the morowe viij of belle they
were ever fyghtynge uppon London Brygge, ande many a man was
slayne and caste in Temys, harnys, body, and alle; and monge the
presse was slayne Mathewe Goughe and John Sutton aldyrman.
And the same nyght, a-non aftyr mydnyght, the Captayne of Kentte
dyde fyre the draught brygge of London ; and be-fore that tyme he
breke bothe Eyngys Bynche ande the Marchelsy, and lete owte alle
the presoners that were yn ^ them. And uppon the morowe by
tymys came my lorde the Cardjmalle of Yorke,*' and my Lorde of
Cauntyrbury,** and the Byschoppe of Wynchester,' and they tretyde
by twyne the Lorde Schalys and that captayne, that the sore con-
flycte and skarmasche was sessyde, ande gaffe the captayne and hys
mayne a generalle chartoure for hym and for alle hys company in
hys name, callyng hym selfe John Mortymere, and thoroughe that
mene they were i-voydyde the moste partye. And the vj day aftyr
that, the Satyr-daye at evyn, the iij heddys were takyn downe of
London Brygge, that ys to say, the Lorde Say ys hedde, Crowmers,

• Omitted in MS. •» yn. ym, MS.

• John Kemp, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury.

^ John Stafford. • William Warnflete.

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A.D. 1460.

194 GREGORY^S CHRONICLE.

and the Bayleyes, and the othyr ij heddys sette uppe a-yenne that
stode a-pon London Brygge be-fore, and the body whythe hedde
were i-burydde at the Gray Fryers at London. And uppon
the xij day of Juylle, the yere a-fore sayde, the eayde camp-
tayne was cryde and proclaymyd traytoure, by the name of John
Cade, in dyvers placys of London, and also in Sowtheworke,
whythe many moo, that what man myght or wolde bryng the
sayde John Cade to the kyng, qwyke or dede, shulde have of the
kynge a thousande marke. Also who som evyr myght brynge or
wolde brynge any of hys chjrffe counsellourys, or of afynyte, that
kepte any state or rewle or governansse undyr the sayd fals
captayne John Cade, he schnlde have to hys rewarde of the kynge
V. c. marke. And that day was that fals traytoure the Captayne of
Kentte i-take and slayne in the Welde in the countre of Sowsex,
and uppon the morowe he was brought in a carre alle nakyd, and
at the Herte in Sowetheworke there the carre was made stonde
stylle, the wyffe of the howse myght se hjrm yf hyt were the same
man or no that was namyd the Captayne of Kente, for he was
loggyd whythe yn hyr howse in hys pevys tyme of hys mys rewylle
and rysynge. And thenne he was hadde in to the Kyngys Bynche,
and there he lay from Monday at evyn unto the Thursseday nexte
folowynge at evyn ; and whythe yn the Kynges Benche the sayde
captayne was be-heddyde and quarteryde; and the same day
i-d[r]awe a-pon a hyrdylle in pecys whythe the hedde by-twyne
hys breste from the Kyngys Benche thoroughe owte Sowthewerke,
and thenne ovyr Londyn Brygge, and thenne thoroughe London
unto Newegate, and thenne hys hedde was takyn and sette uppon
London Brygge.

And the same yere was the Byschoppe of Sawlysbury slayne
at Edyngton, a myle owte of the towne, a-pon a hyghe hylle;
hyt was the xiiij day of June, and alle hys goode mevabyllc was
departyde to every man d wellynge there that any of hys lyflode laye ;
for bothe oxsyn, sheppe, hors, swyne, carte, plowe, come, hay,
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body, boWsy chalys, and alle that longyd to any manyr of hys, and j^«?- VL
the very ledde that coveryd the howsys and wodys wer fylde
downe in sum placys, but not in every place, but in som, as at
Shyrbone in Dorsette schyre. And the men that toke a-pon hem
alle thys mys rewle, whenne they undyrstode that hyt was wronge
that they hadde done bothe to hym, and in specyalle unto the
kynge, they a-non wente thoroughe owte alle the towne of Shyr-
bome an toke to every man, woman, and chylde that was above
xij yere age and iij chore, everyche of hem hadde vj**; and they
madde them to swere to be trewe ande holde to gedyr, by cause yf
the kynge wolde have take any execucyon a-pon hyt he moste
have take hyt a-pone alle the hoole schyre and contrays there that
hys lyflode was. And for cause here of the kynge gaffe a generalle
pardon to alle maner men.

Ande that same yere was slayne Tresham, the man of lawe, that
was Speker of the Parlymentt^ and hys sone was score woundyde in
Northehampton schyre* And by the kynge and hys counselle a
Parlyment was ordaynyde to be-gyn on Syn Leonarde ys day nexte
folowynge. In the mene ty me many strange and woundyrfuUe bylle
were sete in dyvers placys, sum at the kyngys owne chambyr doore
at Westemyster, in hys palysse, and sum at the halle dore at
Westemyster, ande sum at Poulys chjrrche dore, and in many othyr
dyvers placys of London.

Ande in the ende of the sayde same yere Rycharde, the Duke of
Yorke, come to the sayde Parlymentt, for the sayde Duke was
before banyschyd for certayne yerys, whythe a notabylle felyschippe
of fensabylle men, and the Duke of Northefolke whythe a grete
multytude of defensabylle men. And every lorde whythe hyr
retynowe welle harnysyd and welle be-sene; and every lorde hadde
hys bagge a-pon hys harnys, and hyr mayny also, that they myght
ben knowe by hyr baggys and levereys.

Nycholas Wyfolde, { Wylliam Deere \ * o xxix^
Mayre of London | John Myddelton j

Ande that same yere, the ij day of Decembyr, the Duke of

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Hen. VT. Somersett was a-tachyde in the Fryer Prechourys at London. And
that day he was robbyde of alle hyg goodys, and hys jewyllys were
takyn and borne a-way by lordys mayny. Ande in the morowe
o\ they dyspoylyd the placys and longgynges of many dyvers lordys,

and t hey Imre away alle the goodys that were with ynne hem, that
ys to say, Syr Thomas Stodenham,* thenne beynge wardroper, Syr
Thomas Hoo the Lorde Hastynge, sum tyme the Chambyrlayne of
Normandy.

And the same day was a man of the forsayde feleschyppe, the
whyche was at the spoylynge and robbynge of the Fryer Pre-
chourys, be-heddyde at the Standarde in Cheppe, for to ben an
exampylle unto alle othyr ; but hy t was nevyr the bettyr, for hy t
causyd moche the more herte brennyng a gayne the duke and the
lordys by-fore sayde, &c.

And that same day, the aftyr non, the Duke of Yorke roode
thoroughe London. And he made to be cryde in dyvers placys
that what^ maner a man that robbyd or ryfylde any persone
schulde have as hastely jewys as the sayde man hadde. And uppon
Thursday nexte folowjm'ge the kynge come fro Westemyster,
ryddyng thoroughe London ; and- whythe the Duke of Yorke, and
the mostc dele in substans of alle the lordys in thys londe, with hyr
retenowys of fensabylle men ; whyche was a gay and a gloryus syght
if hit hadde ben in Fraunce, but not in Ingelonde, for hyt boldyd
sum mennys hertys that hyt causyd aftyr many mannjrs dethe.
Wher was or ys the defaute I wotte not, &c.

Ande the same yere, on Candylmas daye, the kynge was at
Cauntyrbury, and whythe hym was the Duke of Excetyr, the Duke
of Somersette, my Lorde of Schrofuysbury, whythe many moo
othyr lordys and many justyces; and there they helde the cessyons
iiij dayes, and there were dampnyde many men of the captajme ys
men for hyr rysyng, and for hyr talkyng a gayne the kyng, havynge
more favyr unto the Duke of Yorke thenne unto the kynge. And
the dampnyde men were drawe, hanggyde, and quarteryde, but
* Todenham. *• n'hat repeated in MS.

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they were pardonnyde to be buryde, bothe hyr quarters of hyr Hen. VI.
bodys and hyr heddys with alle.

Ande at Rochester ix men were be-heddyd at that same tyme,
and hyr heddys were sende unto London by the kyngys com^
maundement, and sette uppon London Brygge alle at one tjnme;
and xij heddys at a nothyr tjnne were brought unto London at ^
sette uppe undyr the same forme, as hys • was commaundyd by the
kjmg. Men calle hyt in Kente the harvyste of hedjrs.
Will.* Gregory Skynner. j Warter j ^^^^ ^^^.
Mayre of London ' Phylyppe »

An that yere come a legat from the Pope of Rome with grete
pardon, for that pardon was the grettyste pardon that evyr come to
Inglonde from the Conqueste unto thys tyme of my yere, beyng
JAsLjre of London, for hyt was plenar indulgens. And at every
chathydralle chyrche of Inglonde, and every abbay of name, and
pryory, hadde in hyr placys confessorys assygnyd to hyre confessyons^
and to a soyle them of hyr gjiinys a pena et culpa. And in every
toune and cytte there that thys pardon was puppljBcyde, and con-
fessors i-namyd, were the stacyons assygnyd unto the penytentys
to goo on pylgermage to oSyi hyr prayers unto God, and noo thyng
ellys; and thM men that were confessyd gaffe mony unto the Pope
to majmtayny hys warrys agayne the Turke, that was fulle cruelle
unto Crystyn men, and thoroughe thys londe of Ingelonde every
man was fayne to do and gyffe aftyr hjrr pouer. And that yere the
Pope put that hethyn hounde and fals tyrant to a grete rebuke, and
riayne moe of hys Turkys then M^ persons of grete dygnyte of hyr
contre, &c.

Mayster Fyldynge, t Eic. Lee j ^^^^ ^.,

Mayre of London ( Ric. Alle I

That yere hyt was competent welle and pessabylle as for any
rysjmge a-mong oure selfe, for every man was in cheryte, but sum

• So in MS.

* The Chrirtian name " Will." is added by a somewhat later hand. The date
" 1451 *' is also added in the margin in a hand decidedly more modern.

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A^"i 462^5 what the hertys of the pepyl hyng and sorowyd for that the Duke

of Gloucetcr was dede, and: siyn sayde that the Duke of Yorke

hadde grete wronge, but what wronge there was noo man that

^ / y darste say, but sum grounyd and sum lowryd and hadde dysdayne

of othyr, &c.

John Normaii, j John Walden j ^^^ ^^;.„ .

Mayre of London \ Thomas Coke )

Ande that yere there was a batayle at Synt Albonys by-twyne
1^1 . Kyng Harry the VI. and the Duke of Yorke, and thys batayle was

the weke be-fore Whytte Sonday. And Kyng Harry was in
harnys hys owne propyr person, and was hurte with the shotte of
an arowe in the necke. And the Duke of Yorke brought hym
unto London as kynge and not as a presener. The Erie of Wylt-
schyre bare the kyngys baner that day in the batayle, for he was
at that tyme namyd but Sjrr Jamys Urmon; ** and thys sayde Jamys
sette the kyngys baner agayne an howse ende and fought manly
with the helys, for he was a feryd of lesynge of beute, for he was
namyd the fayryd knyght of thys londe. And with yn a lytyl
whyle aftyr was made the Erie of Wyltschyre.

The chaptaynys of thys fylde undyr the Duke of Yorke was the
Erie of Warwyke, the Erie of Saulysbury. And in that batayle wer
slayne the Duke of Somersett, the Erie of Northehomerlonde, the
Lorde Clyfforde, with many moo othyr, bothe of gentylle men and
yemen. And the kynge lete alle thys mater be in a dormon a
grete and a long tyme aftyr, as ye shalle hyre, for hyt was noo
seson to trete of pesse, for sum were welle contente and sum evylle
plesyd, but at the laste the pepylle sayde that the Duke of
Somersett was worthy to suffer that dethe by so moche that he

* What is recorded ander this year, yiz. the battle of St. Alban's, really took
place in the thirty-third year of Henry VI., but the mayor and sheriffs of that year
are omitted, and all the remaining yeluv of this reign are wrong numbered, that
which is called the thirty-third year being really the thirty-fourth, and so on.

•» Sir James Bntler, Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond. The writer is wrong in
saying*that he was made Earl of Wiltshire after the battle. He was created Earl
of Wiltshire in 1449, and succeeded to the earldom of Ormond in 145?.

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brought Kyng Harry at Claiyngdon be-syde Saulysbury and there ^°; 7^
he toke hys grete sekenys.

Wylliam Marowe, , John Jonge 1 Anno xxxiijV

Mayre of London j Holgrave J

Here was the rysynge and wanton reule of |?e mayre and the
mercers of London a-gayne the Lombardys. The Lombardys were
so yntretyd that they were fajme to voyde the Cytte of London,
ande many of them come to Sowthe Hampton and unto Wynchester
for to be an habyte there. And they toke grete olde mancyons in
Wyncherter for terme of lyffe, and sum but for yerys, and causyd
the londe lordys to do grete coste in reparacyons, and when alle
was don they come not there, and that causyd grete loste unto the
londe lordys.

Also sum of the Lumbardys were take ande put in warde, and
the corayn talkynge ande noyse was that they shulde nevyr be
delyveryd butt contjmue in perpetualle preson.

Also that yere a thyffe, one Thomas Whytehorne, was take in the
Neweforeste be-syde Beuley and put yn preson at Wynchester,
And when the day of delyverans com he appelyd many trewe men,
and by that mene he kepte hys lyffe in preson. And thoo men
that he appelyd were take and put yn stronge preson and sufferde
many grete paynys, and was that they sholde confesse and a-corde
unto hys fals pelyng; and sum were hongyd that hadde noo frende
shyppe and goode, and thoo that hadde goode gate hyr charters of
pardon. And that fals and untrewe peler hadde of the kynge every
day j d. ob. And thys he contynuyd al moste iij yere, and dystryde
many men that were sum tym in hys company. And at the laste
he appelyd on that outerly sayde that he was fals in hys appelynge,
and sayde that [he]** wolde preve hyt -^ith hys hondys, and spende
hys lyfe and blode a-pone hys fals body. And thys mater was fiille
dyscretely take and hyrde of bothe pelerrys parte, and of the
defendente ys parte also. And a notabylle man, and the moste
petefiiUyste juge of al thys londe in syttyng a-pon lyffe and dethe,

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AD°'i466-6 ^^^ *'^^® sympylle man that offeryd to fyght with the peler, ande
fuUe curtesly informyd hym of alle the condyscyons of the fyghtyng
and duelle of repreffe that shulde be by-twyne a peler of the kyngys,
fals or trewe, in that one party, and by-twyne the defendent, trewe
or false, in that othyr party. For in cas that the peler prevaylyd
in that fyght he ehulde be put in preson ayen, but he shulde fare
mor e better than he dyd be fore tyme of fyghtynge, and be i-lowe
of the kyng ij d. every [day] ' as longe as hit plesyd the kyng that
he shulde lyf. For in prosses the kynge may by the lawe put hym
to dethe, as for a man sleer, bycause that hys pelyng, fals or trewe,
hathe causyd many mannys dethys, for a very trewe man schulde
with yn xxiiij howrys make opyn to be knowe alle suche fals hyd
thyngys of felony or treson, yf he be nott consentynge unto the
same felowschyppe, undyr payne of dethe; and thys peler ys in
the same cas, wherefore he moste nedys dy by very reson. Thys
ys for the pelers party.

The defendaunte ys party ys, as that nobylle man, Mayster Myhelle
Skyllyng, sayde ande informyde the defender, that he and the peler
moste be clothyd alle in whyte schepys leter, bothe body, hedde,
leggys, fete, face, handys, and alle. Ande that they schulde have
in hyr hondys ij stavys of grene hasche, the ,^arke beynge a-pon,
of iij fote in lenghthe, and at the ende a bat of the same govyn
owte as longe as the more gevythe any gretenys. And in that
othyr ende a home of yryn, i-made lyke unto a raramys home, as
scharpe at the smalle ende as hit myght be made. And there
why|?e they schulde make hyr foule batayle a-pone the moste sory
and wrecchyd grene that myght be founde a-bowte the towne,
havyng nothyr mete ne drynke whythe, bot both moste be fastynge.
And yf hyr frowarde wepyn ben i-broke they moste fyght with hyr
hondys, fystys, naylys, tethe, fete, and leggys; hyt ys to schamfulle
to reherse alle the condyscyons of thys foule conflycte; and yf they
nede any drynke, they moste take hyr owne pysse. And yf the
defendent sle )mt pelers, fals or trewe, the defendent shalle be

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hangyde by-cause of man sleynge, by soo moche that he bathe i-slayne Hen. VI.

the kyngys prover, for by hya meny the kynge hadde mony of ^'^^ ^*'^*^'

Buche as were appelyd, and that mony )mt rosse of hyr stuffe or

goodys pat they hadde was put to 'pe kynge almys, and hys amener

dystrybutyd hit unto the pore pepylle. But the kyng may by hys

grace pardon the defendent yf he wylle, ys^ the defendent be welle

namyd and of competent govemaunce in the toune or citte there at

hys abydyng ys; but thys fulle seldon sene by cause of the vyle and

unmanerly fyghtynge. And by reson they shulde not ben beryd

in noo holy sepulture of Grystyn mannys beryng, but caste owte as

a man }^at wylfully slejrthe hym selfe. Nowe remembyr thys foule

batayle, whethey ye wylle doo hyt or noo. And bothe partys con-

sentyde to fyght, with alle the condjrsoyons that long there too*

And the fendent desyryd that the juge wolde sende unto Mylbroke

there that he dwellyde, to inquere of hys gydynge and of conver-

sacyon. And alle the men in that toune sayde that he was the

trewyste laborer in alle that centre^ and the moste gentellyste there

with, for he was a fyscher and tayler of crafte. And the peler

desyryd the same, but he was not a-bydynge in no place passynge

a monythe. And in every place there as inquesyscyon was made

men sayde, " Hange uppe Thome Whythome, for he ys to stronge to

fyght with Jamys Fyscher the trewe man whythe an yryn rammys

borne." And thys causyd the juge to have pytte a-pon the defendent.

The maner of fyughtynge of thes ij poore
wrecchys by-syde Wynchester.

The peler in hys a-rayment ande parelle whythe hys wepyn come
owte of the Este syde, and the defendent owte of the Sowthe-Weste
syde in hjs aparayle, with hys wepyn, fiiUe sore wepynge, and a
payre of bedys in hys bond; and he knelyd downe a-pone the erthe
towarde the Este and cryde God marcy and alle the worlde, and
prayde every man of forgevenys, and every man there beyng

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Hen. VI. present prajde for hym. And the fels pder callyde and sayd ^* J^ou
A.D. 1466-7. £jjg troyter ] why arte J>ou soo longe in fals bytter be-leve? " And
thenne the defendent rosse upe and hym and sayde, " My quarelle ys
as faythefulle and alle soo trewe as my by-Ijrve, and in that quarelle I
wylle fyght," and with the same worde smote at the peler that hys
wepyn breke ; and thenne the peler smote a stroke to the defendejit,
but the ofiycers were redy that he shulde smyte no more, and they
toke a- way hys wepyn fro hym. And thenn they fought to gederjrs
with hyr fystys long tyme and restyd hem, ande fought agayne, and
thenn restyd agayne; and thenn they wente togedyr by the neckys.
And then they bothe with hyr tethe, that the lethyr of clothyng
and flesche was alle to rente in many placys of hyr bodys. And
thenn the fals peler caste that meke innocent downe to the grownde
and bote hym by the membrys, that the sely innocent cryde owt.
And by happe more thenne strengy the. that innocent recoveryd up
on hys kneys and toke that fals peler by the nose with hys tethe
and put hys thombe in hys yee, that the peler cryde owte and
prayde hym of marcy, for he was fals unto God and unto hym.
And thenn pe juge commaundyd hem to cesse and hyr bothe hyr
talys; and the peler sayde that he hadde accusyd hym wronge-fiiUy
and xviij men, and be-sought God of marcy and of for-gevenys.
And thenn he was confessyd ande hanggyd, of whos soule Grod
have marcy. Amen.

As for the defendent was pardonyd of hys lyfe, leme, and goodys,
and went home; and he be-com^ an hermyte and with schorte
tyme dyde.

Mayster Canyngys, j Raffe Vemey j ^o ^^^—o •

Mayre of London f Stewarde 1

That same yere the Lorde Egramounde brake owt of Newegate
with many othyr men.

GeffrayBolayne, j Reyner 1 AnnoxxxV."

l^layre of London ( Edwar '

• Should be " xxxv." See page 198, note •.
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Ande thys same yere at Covyntre there, was made a peaae ^^'^h
by-twyne the Duke of Someraett Harry, and the Erie of Saulysbury,
and the Erie of Warwycke, for the dethe of hys fiuiyr Duke of
Somersette, that the Duke of Yorke put to dethe at Synt Albonys.
And thjrs tretys was made at Covyntre, in the holy tyme of Lentyn,
by the mene of Kyng Harry the VL And alle Aat holy tyme of
Lentyn there myght noo mane^ man that shulde preche by-fore the
^T^g^ but that he shulde shewe hys sarmon in wrytyng, were he
docter or other, in so moche the lordys woldjrs ABC wolde
assygne what he schulde say, as for any thynge that longyd unto
the comyn wele, and yf he passyd hyr commaundement he schulde
lese hys costys, and goo as he oome, withowte mete and drynge.
But a becheler of holy devynyte come to that cjrtte, and whenn he
come to preche by-fore the kyng, as Maystyr Wylliam Saye, Dene
of. Poulys and Dene of the kyngys chapylle, hadde desyryd and
asygnyd, ABC axyd hys name, and hys name was Mayster Wylliam
Ive, at that tyme beyng at Wynchester in Wycham ys college.
And ABC sayde that they moste nedys se hys sarmon and hys
purposse, that he was a vysyd to say by-fore the kynge the Sonday
nexte comynge. And he fiille goodly toke them hys papyr ; and
they seyng and redynge hys papyr, commaundyd to leve owte and
put a way many troughtys. But that same Mayster Wylliam Ive
sayde but lytylle, but whenn he come to pulpyt he sparyd not to
sayd the troughthe, and reportyd by-fore the kyng that ABC
made the sarmonys that were sayde fore, and not thoo that prechyd^
and that causyd that ^e men that prechyd hadde but sjrmpylle
sarmons, for hyr purposse was alle tumyde upsodowne, and that they
hadde made love days as Judas made whythe a cosse ^ with Ciysta
for they cyste ovyr the mane. The grete rewarde that he hadde
for hys labyr was the rydyng of viij" myle yn and owte for hy^
travayle, and alle hys frendys fuUe sory for hym. But qui veritatem
dieit caput fractum habebit, &c. ^d that same yere alle thea
lordys departyd from the Parlyment, but they come nevyr alle to-

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Hen. VI. g^J^ *%' ^^* tjme to noo Parljrment nor conselle, but yf hyt
A.D. 1468-9. were in fylde with spere and schylde.

Mayrter Skoot, j Raffe Gosselyn i AnnoxxxrjV

Majrre of London ' Nedham I

Ande ihjs yere was done a grete jomaye at the Blowre Hethe
by the Erie of Saulysbuiy ande the Quenys galentys. And that day
the kynge made vij knyghtys, fyrste, Syr Bobert Molynere, Syr
John Daune, Syr Thomas Uttyng, Syr John Brembly, Syr Jon
Stanley, Syr John Grysly, and Syr Rychard Harden ; and v of thes
knyghtys were slayne fulle manly in the fylde, and many men of
yemonry soore hurte, and a fulle nobylle knyght, the Lorde Audeley,
and SjT Thomas Hamdon, knyght, was the getynge of the fylde»
and Thomas Squyer and CounteroUer of the Pryncys house fulle
sore hurte. And [the] * batayle or jomay lastyd alle the afiyr none,
fro one of the clocke tylle v aflyr non, and the chasse lastyd unto
▼ij at the belle in the momynge. And men were maymyd many one
in the Quenys party. There were in the Quenys party v W,^ and
in that othyr party v 0, a grete wondyr that eyyr they myght
stonde the grete multytude not ferynge, the kynge beyng with yn
X myle and the queue with yn y myle at the castelle of Egyllyssale.
But the Erie of Saulysbury hadde ben i-take, save only a Fryer
Austyn schot gonnys alle that nyght in a parke that was at the
backe syde of th^ fylde, and by thys mene the erle come to Duke
of Yorke. And in the morowe they founde nothyr man ne chylde
in that parke but the fryer, and he sayde that for fere he a-bode in
that parke alle that nyght. But in the mornyng, by-twyne the
fylde and Chester, Syr John Dawne ys sone that was at home in hys
fadyrs place hadde worde that hys fiulyr was slayne ; a-non he raysyd
hys tenantys and toke by-syde a-lytyl towne i-namyd Torperlay
Syr Thomas Nevyle, Syr John Nevyle, and Syr Thomas Hatyngdon,
and brought hem unto the castelle of Chester, ande there they
a-boode tylle the batayle of Northehampton was done, &c.

Also alle that seson the Erie of Warwyke with sowdyers of
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Calyeae were comynge unto the Duke of Yorke, and he come ovyr- ^ ^^i^jlio.

wharte Colsylle be-syde Covyntre, and the Duke of Somerset

whjthe hj8 men rode a-longe thoroughe the towne, and jet non of

hem mette whjrthe othyr as hyt happjd, or by lyckely hode they

wold have made a newe &aye. Ande the same day Androwe

ThroUope consay vyd that the Erie of Warwyke was goyng unto the

Duke of Yorke and not unto the kynge, and utterly for-soke hym

and come unto the kynge and was pardonyd; and that made the

duke fuUe sore a-frayde when he wyste that sum olde soudyers went

from hym unto the kynge, &c.

Wylhara Hewlyn, | Plomer i Annoxxxvij^•

Mayre of London I Sokker j

Ande thys same yere there was a grete afiray at Lodlowe by
twyne the kynge and the Duke of Yorke, the Erie of Salusbury,
the Erie of Warwyke, the Erie of Marche. The Duke of Yorke
lete make a grete depe dyche and fortefyde it with gonnys, cartys,
and stakys, but hys parly was oyyr weke, for the kyng was mo
thenn xxx M* of harneysyd men, by-syde nakyd men that were
eompellyd for to come with the kynge. And thenne the duke
fledde fro place to place in Walys, and breke downe the bryggys
aftyr hym that the kyngys mayny schulde not come affyr hym. And
he wente unto Irlonde. And there he taryd tylle the jomay was
endyd at Northehampton. And he^ made newe grotys of a newe
kune in Irlonde; in on syde of the grote was a crowne and in that
othyr syde a crosse. And there he made many newe statutys, and
h3rs yong sonys were sende by yende ihe see unto the Duke of
Burgayne, and they were fuUe welle ande worschypftilly ressayvyd.

The Erie of Saulysbury, the Erie of Warwycke, the Erie of
Marche, Syr John Wenlocke, alle thes come unto Devynschyre to
Syr John Denham, and alle thes by the conveynge of Sjr John
Denham; and they bought a smalle vessclle in that contray, an
they were conveyde unto Gamesey, ande from Gamesaye unto Caljrs,
for fere of dethe that they sayde was ymagenyde by die kyng and

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Hen. VI. tys lordys, and of hyr owne housolde mayny for hyr dystruccyon, by
A.D. 1469-60. ^Q counselle and consent of Kinjf Harry the VL Thes lordys
departyd owte of Ingelonde on Synt Edwarde ys evyn, Synt
Edwarde bothe kynge and confessoure, the xlj day of October,' and
they taryd at Calys xxxvj wekya. But the Erie of Warwycke
come unto Sondewyche, and there he toke pe Lord Rjrvers with
hys ladye, the lady and Duchyes of Bedforde,^ and brought hem to
Calys, for ke was commaundyd to have londyd at C[a]Iys by the
kynge, but he was brought there sonner then hym lekyd.

Ande Duke Harry of Somerset was i-commaundyd to goo to
Gyon, and soo he dyd, and fulle manly made sautys to Calys, ande
ranne byfore Calys almoste dayly, and many a men were hurte by
hym and hys men.

Ande thes fore sayde lordys sende letters unto manyplacys of
Inglonde howe they were a vysyde to reforme the hurtys and mys-
chevys ande grevys that raynyd in thys londe; and that causyd
them moche the more to be lovyde of the comyns of Kente and of
London; and by thys mene the comyns of Kent sende hem worde to
ressayve hem and to go with hem in that a-tente that they wolde
kepe trewe promys, and as for the more parte of thys londe hadde
pytte that they were attaynte and proclaymyd trayters by the
Parlement at was holde at Covyntre*

Also that same yere the Duchyes of Yorke com unto Kyng
Harry and submyttyd hyr unto hys grace, and she prayde for hyr
husbonde that he myght come to hys answere and to be ressayvyd
tmto hys grace; and the kynge fulle humbely grauntyde h3rr grace>
and to alle hyrs }^at wolde come with hyr, and to alle othyr that
wolde com yn with yn viij dayes. And after viij days to done }>e
execusyon of the lawe as hit requyryd. And many men, bol^e

* This is really the date of the breaking ap of their camp at Ladlow, not of their
learing England.

^ Jaqnetta, widow of the Regent Bedford. She was the daughter of Peter of
Lnzemborg, Count of St Pol, and soon after her first hosband's death married Sir
Bichard Woodrille, who was created Baron Riyers by Henry VI. in 1448, and Earl
Riyert by Edward lY. (who was his son-in law) in 1466.

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knyghtjB and flquyers, oome whythe Syr Water Deverose, in hyr Hen. lO.
schyrtys and halters in hyr hondya, fallynge by-fore the kynge, and
alle hadde grace and marcy bothe of lyffe and lym.

The mysrewle of the kyngys galentys at Ludlowe, whenn they
hadde drokyn i-nowe of wyne that was in tavernys and in othyr
placys, they fulle ungpodely smote owte the heddys of the pypys
and hoggys hedys of wyne, that men wente wete-schode in wyne,
and thenn they robbyd the towne, and bare a-waye beddynge, clothe,
and othyr stuffe, and defoulyd many wymmen.

The Duchyes of Yorke was take to the Duke Bokjmgham and to
hys lady, for they two ben susters, and there she was tylle the fylde
was done at Northehampton, and she was kept fiille strayte and
many a grete rebuke.

Alle soo thes for sayde lordys come agayne unto Sondewyche the*^
xxj day of June nexte folowyng. And the comyns of Eente and
there welle-wyllers brought hem to Lundon, and so forthe to Northe-
hampton. And there they mete with the kynge and foughte manly
with the kyngys lordys and mayny, but there was moche fayyr in
that fylde unto the Erie of Warwycke. And there they toke the
kynge, and made newe ofiycers of the londe, as the chaunceler and
tresyrar and othyr, but they occupyde not fo[r]the-with, but a-bode
a seson of the comyng of Duke of York owte of Irlonde. And in
that fylde was slayne the Duke of Bokyngham, stondyng stylle at
hys tente, the Erie of Schrovysbury, the Lord Bemond, and the Lord
Egremond, with many othyr men. Ande many men were drownyd
by syde the fylde in the revyr at a mylle. And that goode knyght
Sjrr Wylliam Lucy that dwellyd be-syde Northehampton hyrde the
gonne schotte^ and come unto the fylde to have holpyn ]?e kynge, v
but the fylde was done or that he come; an one of the Staffordys
was ware of hys comynge, and lovyd that knyght ys wyffe and
hatyd hym, and a-non causyd hys dethe.

Eicharde Lee, ( John Lambard J ^^^ xxxviij^^

Mayre of London I John Flemmyng i

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-S^'ileo Ande ihjs same yere the Duke of Yorke come owte of Yrlonde,
and londyd at the Redde CljSe in Loncaschyre, and hya Ijrveiy was
whyte and .brewe in hyr clothyng, and i-brawderyd a-bove with
fetyrlockys. And thys he come forthe towarde London; ande ]?en
h3rs lady the duchyes met with hym in a chare i-coveryd with
blewe felewette^ and iiij pore coursserys ther-yn. And ao he come
to Habyngdon, and there he sende for trompeters and claryners to
bryng hym to London, and there he gave them baners with the
tr hole armys of Inglonde with owte any dyYersyte, and commaundyd
hys swerde to ben borne uppe ryghte be-fore hym; and soo he rode
forthe mito Lundon tylle he come to Westemyster to Eyng Harrys
palys^ ande there he claymyde the crowne of Inglonde. Ande he
kepte Kynge Ebrry there by fors and strengythe, ^lle at the laste
the kynge for fere of dethe grauntyd hym ]^ crowne, for a man
that hathe by lytylle wytte wylle sone be a feryd of dethe, and yet
I truste and bee-leve there was no man that wolde doo hym bodely
harme. But the lordys entretyd that Eyng Harry shuld rejoyse
the crowne durynge hys lyffe, and aftyr hys Ijrffe that the crowne
sholde retume unto the dvkya ys* hayrys as hyt requyrythe by that
tytylle, and here uppon they were swore to ben fkythefulle and
trewe unto Eyng Hairy. And alle so that hyt shulde [be] ^ graunte
treson to them that spake any evyr ^ by the Duke of Yorke or hys
wyffe, or any of hys chyldryn. And alle the lordys graimtyd there
to, and soo hyt was proclaymyd in London and in many placys of
Inglond. And that the for-sayde duke shulde have owte of the
crow[n]e yerely to hjrs expence, for hym and hys hayrys durynge
Eyng Harrys Ijrffe, x W «iarke in mony. Thys a-cordement was
made the laste day of October.

And that same nyght the kynge remevyde unto London a-gayne
hys wylle, to the byschoppe ys palys of London, and the Duke of
Yorke com unto hym that same nyght by the torchelyght and toke
a-pon hym as kyng, and sayde in many placys that thys 3rs owrys
by very ryght. Ande thenn the queue hyrynge thys she voydyde
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unto Walys, but she was met with be-syde tlie Castelle of Malepas, Hen. VI.

and a servand of hyr owne that she hadde made bothe yeman and

gentylman, and aftyr apoyntyd for to be in offysce with hyr soue

the prynce, spoylyde hyr and robbyde hyr, and put hyr soo in dowt

of hjT lyffe and sonys lyffe also. And thenn she com to the Castelle

of Hardelowe in Walys, and she hadde many grete gyftys and

gretely corafortyd, for she hadde nede there of, for she hadde a fulle

esy many a-boute hyr, the nombyr of iiij personnys. And moste

comynly she rode by-hynde a yonge poore gentylle-man of xiiij

yere age, hys name was Jon Combe, i-borne at Amysbery in

Wyltschyre. And there hens she remevyd fulle prevely unto

the Lorde Jesper, Lorde and Erie of Penbroke, for she durste

not a byde in noo place that [was] * opyn but in pryvatt. The

cause was that conterfete tokyns were sende unto hyr as thoughe

that they hadde come from hyr moste dradde lorde the Kyng

Harry the VI. ; but hy t was not of hys sendyng, nothyr of [his] ■

doynge, but forgyd thyngys, for they that brought the tokyns were

of the kyngys howscj, and sum of J?® pryncys howse, and sum of hvr

owne howse, and bade hyr beware of the tokyns, that she gave noo

credans there too ; for at the kyngys departynge fro Covyntre towarde

the fylde of Northehampton, he kyste hyr and blessyd the prynce,

and commaundyd hyr that she shulde not com unto hym tylle that

[he]* sende a specyalle tokyn unto hyr that no man knewe but the

kynge and she. For the lordys wolde fayne hadde hyr unto

Lundon, for they knewe welle that alle the workyngys that were

done growe by hyr, for she was more wyttyer then the kynge, and

that apperythe by hys dcdys, &c.

Then the Queue havynge knowclechynge of thys praty whyle
Fche sende unto the Duke of Somersett, at that tyme beynge in
Dorset schyre at the Castelle of Corffe, and for the Erie of Devy-
schyre, and for Elysaundyr Hody, and prayde hem to com to hyr as
hastely as they myght, with hyr tenantys as stronge in hyr hamys
as men of warre, for the Lorde Rosse, the Lorde Clyfforde, tlie

• Omitted in MS.

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AU HGO ^^^^^ ^^ Grestocke, the Lorde Nevyle, the Lorde Latymer, were
waytyng a-pon the Duke of Excete[r] to mete with hyr at HuUe.
And thys mater was not taryd but fuUe prevely i- wrought; and
she sende letters unto alle hyr chyffe ofFycers that they wold doo
the same, and that they shulde warne alle j^o eervantys that lovyd
hyr or purposyd to kepe and rejoyse hyr offysce, to wayte a-pon
hyr at HuUe by that day as hit a-poyntyd by hyr. Alle thes pepylle
were gaderyd and conveyde so prevely that they wer hole in nombyr
of XV M* or any man wolde be-leve hyt ; in so moche yf any man
sayde, or tolde, or talkyd of suche gaderyng, he shulde be schende,
and sum were in grete donger, for the comyn pepylle sayde by
thoo that tolde J?**, troughthe, '* Ye talke ryght ye wolde hit were,"
and gave noo credens of hyr sayynge. But the laste the lordys pur-
posyd to knowe the trough )?e. And the ix day of December nexte
folowyng the Duke of Yorke, the Erie of Salysbury, the Erie
Rotlond (he was the Duke of Yorke ys secunde sone, one the beste
dysposyd lorde in thys londe),and Syr Thomas Haryngdon, whythe
many mo knyghtys and quyers and grete pepylle with hem, and
800 departyd owte of London towarde Yorke, &c.

Ande the same yere, the xxx day of December, the Duke of
Exceter, the Duke of Somersett, the Erie of Northehomberlond,
the Lorde Roos, the Lorde Nevyle, the Lorde ClyfForde, with many
mo lordys, knyghtys, squyers, and gentyllys, and the commyns of
the Quenys party, met with the Duke of Yorke at Wakefylde, and
there they made a grete jorney a-pon the Lorde and Duke of Yorke,
and toke hym and the Erie of Saulysbury, the Erie of Eutlond, and
the Lorde Haryngdon, and Syr Thomas Nevyle, and Syr Thomas
Haryngdon, and many mo knyghtys were take a slayne by syde
alle the comyns. But thys good Duke of Yorke with hys lordys
a-fore sayde loste hyr heddys; God have marcy on there soulys, for
they loste in that jorneys the nombyr of xxv C men. And in the
Quenys party were slay but ii c men, &c.

As for the sege of the Towre, hyt ys com* and opyn iknowe, I
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passe ovyr. But sone aftyr the ende of the sege the Lorde Schalys, Hen. VI.
that notabylle warryoure, was slayne at Synt Mary Overeyes with ^'^' l**^^^-
water men, and laye there dyspoyly nakyd as a worme. But the
lordys were fuUe sory of hys dethe.

Alle so Edwarde Erie of Marche, the Duke of Yorkc ys sone and
heyre, hadde a gre jornaye at Mortymer ys Crosse in Walys the
secunde day of Februar nexte soo folowynge, and there he put to
flyght the Erie of Penbroke, the Erie of Wylteschyre. And there
he toke and slowe of knyghtys and squyers, and of the,* to the
nomber of iij M'., &c.

Ande in that jornay was Owyn Tetyr i-take and brought unto
Herforde este,^ an he was be heddyde at the market place, and hys
hedde sette a-pone the hygheyste gryce of the market crosse, and a
madde woman kembyd hys here and wysche a way the blode of hys
face, and she gate candellys and sette a-boute hym brennynge, moo
then a c. Thys Owyne Tytyr was fadyr unto the Erie of Pen-
broke, and hadde weddyd Quene Kateryn, Kyng Harry the VI. ys
modyr, wenyng and trustyng all eway that he shulde not be hedyd
tylle he sawe the axe and the blocke, and whenn that he was in hys
dobelet he trustyd on pardon and grace tylle the coler of hys redde
vellvet dobbelet was ryppyd of. Then he sayde, " That hede shalle
ly on the stocke that was wonte to ly on Quene Kateryns lappe,"
and put hys herte and mynde holy unto God, and fuUe mekely toke
hjs dethe.

Alle soo the same day that the Erie of Marche shulde take hys
jornaye towarde Mortymer ys Crosse fro Herforde este,** he mousterd
hys many with owte the towne wallys in a mersche that ys callyd
Wyg mersche. And ovyr hym men say ^ lij sonnys schynyng.

Ande the xvij day nexte folowynge Kyng Harry roode to Synt
Albonys, and the Duke of Northefolke with hym, the Erie of
Warwycke, the Erie of Arundelle, the Lorde Bouser, the Lorde
Bonvyle, with many grcte lordys, knyghtys, and squyers, and
commyns of an c M^ men. And there they hadde a grete bataylc

• So in MS. ^ Haverfordwest. <■ saw.

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Hen. VI. why the the Quene, for she come ever on fro the jornaye of Wacke-
' fylde tylle sche come to Synt Albonys, with alle the lordys a fore
gayde; and hyr mayny and every lorde ys men bare hyr lordys
leverey, that every man myghte knowe hys owne feleschippe by
hys lyverey. And be-syde alle that, every man and lorde bare
the Pryncys levery, that was a bende of crymesyn and blacke with
esteryge ys fetherys. The substance that gate that fylde were
howseholde men and feyd men. I wene there were not v M^ men
that fought in the Quenys party, for y moste parte of Northeryn
men fledde a- way, and sum were take and spoylyd owte of hyr
hamysse by the way as they fledde. And sum of them robbyd
evyr as they yede, a petyffuUe thynge hit ys to hyre hit. But the
day before that batayle tliere was a jornay at Dunstapyl ; but the
kyngys mayny lackyd good gydyng, for sum were 'but newe men
of warre, for the chevyste captayne was a boucher of the same
towne ; and there were the kyngys mayny ovyr throughe only by
the Northeryn men. And sone aftyr the bocher, for schame of hys
sympylle gydynge and loste of the men, the notnbyr of viij C, for
very sorowe as hy t ys sayde, hynge hym selfe ; and sum men sayde
that hyt was for loste of hys goode, but dede he ys — God knowythe
the trought.

And in the myddys of the batayle Kynge Harry wente unto hys
Quene and for-soke alle hys lordys, ande truste better to hyr party
thenne unto hys owne lordys. And thenn thoroughe grete labur
the Duke of Northefolke and the Erie of Warwycke a schapyd
awaye; the Byschoppeof Exceter,that tyme Chaunceler of Ingelond,
and brother unto the Erie of Warwycke, the Lorde Bouser, whythe
many othyr knyghtys, squyers, and comyns fledde, and many men
slayne in bothe partys. And the Lorde Bonevyle was be-heddyd,
the comyn sayynge that hys longage causyd hym to dye. The
Prynce was jugge ys owne sylfe. Ande thcr was slayne that manly
knyght Syr Thomas Keryel. The nomber of ded men was xxxv c an
moo J?at were slayne. The lordys in Kyng Harrys party pycchyd
a fylde and fortefyd hyt fulle stronge, and lykc unwyse men brake

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hyr raye and fyld and toke a-nothyr, and or that they were alle Hen. VI.
sette a buskyd to batayle, the Quenys parte was at hond whjrthe
hem in towne of Synt Albonys, and then alle J^yng was to seke and
owte of ordyr, for hyr pryckyers come not home to bryng no
tydyng howe ny that the Quene was, save one come and sayd that
she was ix myle of. And ar the goners and borgeners couthe
levylle hyr gonnys they were besely fyghtyng, and many a gynne
ofwerwas ordaynyd that stode in lytylle a-vayle or nought; for
the burgeners hadde suche instrumentys that wolde schute bothe
pellettys of ledde and arowys of an elle of lenghthe with vj fetherys,
iij in myddys and iij at the othyr ende, with a grete myghty hedde
of yryn at the othyr ende, and wylde fyre with alle. Alle thes iij
thyngys they myght schute welle and esely at onys, but in tyme of
nede they couthe not schut not one of thes, but the fyre tumyd
backe a-pon them that wold schute thys iij thyngys. Also they
hadde nettys made of grete cordys of iiij fethem of lengthe and of
iiij fote brode, lyke unto an haye, and at every ij knott there was
an nayl stondyng uppe ryght, that there couthe no man passe ovjrr
hyt by lyckely hode but he shulde be hurte. Alle so they hadde
pavysse bore as a dore i-made with a ptaffe foldynge uppe and
downe to sette the pavys where the lykyd, and loupjrs with
schyttyng wyndowys to schute owte at, they stondyng by hynde f *
pavp, and the pavys as fuUe of iij** nayle aftyr ordyr as they myght
stonde. And whenn hyr schotte was spende and done they caste
the pavysse by- fore hem, thenn there myght noo man come unto
them ovyr the pavysse for the naylys that stode up-ryghte, but yf
he wolde myschyffe hym sylfe. Alle so they hadde a thynge made
lyke unto a latysse fuUe of naylys as the net was, but hit wolde be
mevyd as a man wolde; a man myght bryse hyt to-gedyr that the
lengythe wolde be more then ij yerdys long, and yf he wolde he
my^t hale hyt a brode, thenn hit wolde be iiij square. And that
servyd to lye at gappys there at horsemen wolde entyr yn, and
many a caltrappe. And as the substaunce of men of worschyppe
that wylle not glosc nor cory favyl for no parcyallyte, they cowthe

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AD 1461 ^^* undyrstond that alle thys ordenaunce dyd any goode or harme
but yf hyt were a mong us in owre parte with Kyng Harry. There
fore hyt ys moche lefte, and men take hem to mallys of ledde, bowys,
swyrdys, gleyvys, and axys. As for speremen they ben good to
ryde be-fore the foote men and ete and drynke uppe hyr vetayle,
and many moo suche prety thyngys they doo, holde me excusyd
thoughe I say the beste, for in the fote men ys alle the tryste.

Ande at the nyght aftyr the batayle the kynge blessyd hys sone
the Prynce, and Doctor Morton brought forthe a boke that was
fulle of orysons, and there the boke was oppenyd, and blessyd that
yong chylde cum pinguedine terre et cum rore celt, and made hym
knyght. And the yong knyght weryd a payre of bregant yerys
i-coveryd with purpylle velvy t i-bete with golde-smythe ys worke.
And the Prynce made many knyghtys. The fryste that he made was
Androwe TroUoppe, for he was hurte and myght not goo for a
calletrappe in hys fote; and he sayde, *' My lorde, I have not deservyd
hit for I slowe but xv men, for I stode stylie in oo place and
they come unto me, but they bode stylie with me.'* And then
come Whytyngam, Tresham, and many moo othyr, and were made
knyghtys that same tyme.

Ande the Kynge and the Quene toke hyr jo may unto Yorke
wardys, for they demyde that the Northeryn men wolde have ben
to creuelle in robbyng yf they hadde come to London. But by the
avyse of Docter Morton they sende certayne knyghtys and men
unto London and to Westemyster, but they myght not be sufferde
to entery in to the towne. Ande sum of hyr mayny were slayne
for hyr cursyd longege. Ande the mayre ordaynyd bothe brede
and vytayle to be sende unto the quene, and a certayne sum of
money with alle. But whenn men of London and comyns wyste
that the cartysse shulde goo to the Quene, they toke the cartys and
depariyde ]?e brede and vytayle a-monge the comyns. And on
John Byschoppe was a grete doer of thys mater, for he was chyffe
coke to the knyght Syr John Wcnlocke. But as for the mony,

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I wot not howe hit was departyd; I trowe the pursse stale the ?^*?Jgj
mony.

Then come tydyngys of the comynge of J?e * Erie of Marche unto
London; thenn alle the cytte were fayne, and thonkyd God, and
sayde that

He that had Londyn for sake

Wolde no more to hem take,

and sayde, '* Lette us walke in a newe wyne yerde, and lette
us make us a gay gardon in the monythe of Marche with thys
fayre whyte ros and herbe, the Erie of Marche/* And the Erie of
Warwycke mette with the Erie of Marche by-syde Oxforde, x myle
owte of hit, at a towne of hys owne i-namyd Burford a-pon the
Wolde ; for the Erie of Marche come fro Walys, and was fulle sore
a-ferde of the loste of the ij fyldys that were loste by- fore, Wakefylde
that one, and Synt Albonys that othyr, and he sorowde sore for
hys fadyr the Duke of Yorke, and for hjrs good brother the Erie
of Kutlond, and for alle othyr lordys and comyns, &c.

There the Erie of Warwycke informyd hym of the gydynge and
dysposyscyon of Kyng Harry, and of the Queue, and of the love and
favyr that the comyns hadde unto hym, and by ryght to occupy the
crowne of Inglonde, and soo hys hert was sum what made gladde
and comfortyd. But he was sory that he was soo pore, for he
hadde no mony, but the substance of hys mayny come at hyr owne
coste.

Alle 800 the xxvj day of Februer nexte folowyng Edwarde
Erie of Marche com to London owt of Walys and the Erie of
Warwycke with hym, and xl M' men with hem bothe, and they
enteryd unto the cytte of London, and there he toke uppon hym
the crowne of Inglond by the avysse of the lordys spyrytual and
temporalle, and by the elexyon of the comyns. And so he be-gan
hys rayne the iiij day of Marche, in the yere of oure Lorde God
M^ CCCC Ixj, the Sondy letter D as for that yere.

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Edw. IV. Thys ys the fyrste of hys rayne of Kynge Edwarde the iiij'K

Nowe gon messyngera by twyne contraye and contraye, and
harowdys were fulle schante, for they ne wyste what was beste to
done, but sufFerens and fayr speche dyd them moche ese. And
bothe y newe kynge and the olde were fulle besyd to make hyr
party stronge, &c.

The xiij day of Marche the kynge, owre newe Kynge Edwarde,
•toke hys jomaye unto the Northe, and the Duke of Northefolke
with hym. The Erie of Warwycke and the Lorde Fauconbrygge,
with many knyghtes, squyers, and comyns, to the nombyr of
iic Al* men.

And the xxviij day of Marche, that was y Palme Sunday evyn,
the Lorde Fewater was slayne at Ferybryge, and many with'
hym was slayne and drownyd. And the Erie of Warwycke was
hurte yn hys legge with an arowe at the same jornaye.

Ande the xxix day of the same monythe of Marche, that was
Palme Sunday, the kyng mette with the lordys of the Northe at
Schyrbome. And there was on Harrys party that was kynge

Prynce Edwarde, Kyng Harrys son.

The Duke of Exceter.

The Duke of Somersett.

The Erie of Northehumberlond.

The Erie of Devynschyre.

The Lorde Roos.

The Lorde Bemound.

The Lorde Clyfforde.

The Lorde Nevyle.

The Lorde Wellys.

The Lorde Wylby.

The Lorde Harry of Bokyngham.

The Lorde Ryvers'.

The Lorde Schalys.

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The Lorde Maule.* ^'m

The Lorde Ferys of Groby.

The Lorde Foschewe.^

The Lorde Lovelle.

Syr Thomas Hammys, captayne of alle the fote men.

Syr Androwe Thorlloppe*

Syr Thomas Tressam«

Syr Bobert Whytyngham.

Syr John Dawne.

And the yonge Lorde of Schrouysbury, and many moo othyr, .
bothe lordys, knyghtys, and squyers.

Here ben the namjrs of the lordys that were sla)me in the felde
in Kjrnge Harrys party.

The Erie of Northehumberlond,

The Lorde Clyfforde,

The Lorde Nevyle,

The Lorde Wellp,

The Lorde Maules,*
And many moo then I can reherse; but whythe ^es and othyr
that were slayne in the fylde ys a grete nombyr, by syde xlij
knyghtys that were slayne aftyr; the hoole nombyr ys xxxv M* of
comeners. Jhesu be ]?ou marcyfulle unto hyr soulys. Amen.

And the lordys before wretyn fledde, the substance in to Schotlond
with the Kynge Harry and Queue Margarete, and sone the Prynce
with hym, fulle of sorowe and hevynys, no wondyr. God knowythe,
but every man deme the beste tylle the trought be tryde owte.
For many a lady lost hjrr beste be lovyd in that batayle.

The Erie of Devynschyre was seke, and myght not voyde a waye,
and was take and be heddyd. And the Erie of Wylte schyre was
take and brought unto Newe Castell to the Kynge. And there hys

* Ralph Bigot, Lord Manlej. — See Paston Letters (new ed.) ii. 6. His name is
not given in Nicolas' Peerage, but he was eyidentlj the son or grandson of Sir John
Bigot and Constance his wife, sister of Peter Lord Manlej, who died in 1416.

^ This seems nndonbtedly to be the celebrated Sir John Fortescoe, though whr
he is caUed Lord I cannot teU. See Rolls of Pari. r. 477.
CAMD. see. 2 F

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£dw. TV. hedde was smete of, and send unto London to be sette uppon
London Brygge. And Docter Morton, the Prynces chaunceler, was
take with hym and put in the Towre, but he schapyd a way longe
tyme aftyr, and ys by yonde the see with the Queue, &c.

Ande the Kjrnge taryd in the Northe a grette whyle, a made
grete inquerens of the rebellyens a-gayne hys fitdyr. And toke
downe hys fadyrs hedde fi'o the walle of Yorke. And made alle
the contray to ben swome unt hym and to hys lawys. And then
he returnyd unto Lundon agayne. And there he made xviij
knyghtys and many lordys. And then he rode to Westemyster.
And there he was crounyd the xxviij day of June, and the yere
of oure Lorde M' CCCClxj, blessyd be God of hys grete grace, etc.
Hewe Wythe j Gorge Irlond j Anno ij».

Mayre of London I John Loke j

And thys same yere the Erie of Oxforde, the Lord Abbry, the
Lorde of Oxforde ys sone, Syr Thomas Todenham knyght, John
Mongomery, and William Terelle squyer, were takyn in Esex, and
brought unto Lundon to the Towre, Ande thenne they were ledde
to Westemyster to the Kynges palys, and there they were attaynte of
hyghe and myghthy treson that they ymagenyd agayne }^ Eynge.
And thenn they were drawe to the Towre from Westemyster.
And at the Towre hylle was made a schaffolde for them, and there
hyr heddys were smetyn on, and hyr bodys beryd, as hyt plesyd them
to be qwethe hyr bodys.

Thomas Coke, I Bartholomewe Jamys j * ...o

Mayre of London I Wylliam Hampton J

Thys yere Queue Margarete com owt of Frauns with lij schjrppys,
witli Freynysche men and sum Engelysche men in the schjrppys.
And they londyd in Northe Humberlonde, hyt was vij dayes be-fore
Alle Halwyn tyde. And there sche toke the castelle of Anwyke
and put hyt fulle of Fraynyschemen. And thenn she retornyd in
to Schotlonde by water. And there rosse suche a tempaste uppon
hyr that she for soke hyr schippe, and a schapyd with the bote of ]>•
schyppe. And the schyppe was drownyd with moche of hyr stuffe
and iij grete schippys moo. And iiijc and vj Fraynysche men

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were take in the chyrche of Hooly Ylond. Thenn Kyng Edward Mw. IV.

hyrde telle of thy», and made hym redy towarde the Northe with ^^' ^^^'

many lordys, gentellys, and comyns with hym. And there he

layde a sege to Anwyke Castelle, and to the castelle of Bamborowe,

and to Dunsterborowe. Bamborowe and Dunsterborowe was kepte

by Syr Raffe Persy and Syr Harry Bewforde, late Duke of

Somersett, and the castelle of Anwyke with the Lorde Hunger*

forde. And Bamborowe and Dunsterborowe were yoldyn be Syr

Raffe Percy and Syr Harry Beuford, late Duke of Somersett, to the

Kyngys wylle, whythe the condyscyons that the sayde Raffe Percy

schulde have the kepynge of the ij castellys, Bamborowe and

Dunstarborowe. The sayde Syr Raffe Percy and Syr Harry Beuforde,

late Duke of Somersett, were swome to be trewe and faythefuUe as

trewe lege men unto owre kynge and soverayne lorde Edwarde the

iiij*^*. And they com to Derham, and there they were sworne

byfore owre kynge. And the kynge gaffe hem hjrs levery and

grete rewardys.

Ande thenn the for sayde Raffe Percys retomyde a-gayne in to
Northehumberlond, and hadde the kepynge of the sayde ij castellys
accordynge unto the pojmtraent. And the sayde Syr Harry
Beuforde a-bode stylle whithe the kynge, and roode with hym to
Lundon. And the Eynge made fulle moche of hym; in soo moche
that he loggyd whythe the kjrnge in hys owne bedde many
nyghtys, and sum tyme rode a huntynge be hynde the kynge, the
kynge havynge a boute hym not passjrnge yj hors at the moste, and
yet iij were of the Dukys men of Somersett. The kyng lovyd hym
welle, but the duke thought treson undyr fiiyre chere and wordys,
as hyt apperyd. And for a grete love the kyng made a grete justys
at Westemyster, that he shuld se sum maner sporte of chevalry
aftyr hys grete labur and hevynys. And with grete instans the
kynge made hym to take hamys uppon byni, and rode in the place,
but he wolde nevyr cope whithe no man and no man myght not cope
whythe hym, tylle the kynge prayd hym to be mery and sende hym
a tokyn, and thenn he ranne fulle justely and merely, and hys helme
was a sory batte of strawe. And thenn every man markyd hym welle.

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Edw. IV. But within schorte tyme aftyr the sayde Syr Raffe Percy by fah
colysyon and treson he lete the Fraynysche men take the castelle of
Bamborowe fro hym nolens volo. As for the castelle of Anwyke
alle the men of werre that were of worschip brake owte of the
castelle by fors and warre and rescuyd Syr Per3r8 de Brasylle* on
xij day by [v] ^ the mome, and they that were with yn the castelle
gaffe hit uppe by a-poyntement, &c. And then Kyng Edwar made
Syr John Ascheley, the knyght that fought so manly in Smethe-
fylde with an alyon that calengyd, he was made captayne of the
castelle, and Syr Raffe Gray constabylle of the sayde castelle of
Anwycke. And withyn iij or iiij monythys aftyr that fals knyght
and traytoure, Syr Raffe Graye, by fals treson toke the sayde Syr
John Ascheley presoner, and delyveryd hym to Quene Margarete,
and thenn delyreryde the castelle to the Lorde Hungerforde and
unto the Fraynysche men accompanyd whythe hym; and by thys
mene he put the kyng owre soverayne lorde owte of possessyon.
And thenne aftyr that come Kyng Harry that was, and the Quene
to the Kynge of Schottys, Syr Perys de Brasylle,* with iiij" M*
Schottys, and layde a sege unto the castelle of Norham, and lay
there xviij dayes. And thenn my Lorde of Warwycke and hys
brother the Lorde Montegewe put them in devyr to rescewe f*
sayde castelle of Norham, and soo they dyd, and put bothe Eynge
Harry and the Eyng of Schotys to flyghte. And Quene Margarete
whythe alle hir consayle, and Syr Perys de Brasey whythe the
Fraynysche men, fledde a-wey by water with iiij balynggarys; and
they londyd at the Scluse in Flaundjrrs, and lefte Kyng Harry that
was be hynde hem, and alle hyr hors and hyr barneys, they were so
bastyd by my Lorde of Warwycke, and hys brother the Lorde
Mountegewe, and by hyr feleschippe with them accompanyde.
And at the departynge of Syr Perys de Brasyl and hys feleschippe
was on manly man that purposyd to mete with my Lorde of
Warwycke, that was a taberette, for he stode a-pon an hylle with
hys tabyr and hys pype, taberyng and pyping as merely as any man

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myght, Btondjmg by hym selfe, tylle my lorde come unto hym he ?^\^
wold not lesse hys grownd; and there he be-come my lordys man;
ande yet he ys with hym fiille good and to hys lorde.

Thenn the Eynge Edwarde the iiij pnrposyd to make an arme
into Schotlonde by londe and by water, that the grete rebellyous
Harry ahde the Quene Margarete shulde not passe a way by water.
And the kyng made the Erie of Worseter captayne by water. And
thenn there was ordaynyd a grete navy and a grete armye bothe by
watyr and by lond. And alle was loste and in vayne, and cam too
noo purposse, neyther by water ne by londe.

Alle so the kynge sone aftyr dysposyd hym, and was purposyd to
ryde into Yorke schyre and to the contray a boute, to see and
understonde the dysposyscyon of the pepylle of the Northe. And
toke with hjrm the Duke of Somersetti and ij c of hys men welle
horsyd and welle i-hamaysyd. Ande the sayde Duke, Harry of
Somersett, ande his men were made the Kyngys garde, for the Kyng
hadde that duke in moche favyr and trustyd hym welle. But "pe
garde of hym was as men shulde put a lombe a monge wolvysse of
malyscyus bestys; but Alle myghty God was the scheparde. And
whenn the kynge departyd from London he toke hys way to Northe-
hampton, and thedyr the kynge com a Syn Jamys day the Apostylle,*
ande that fals duke with hym. And the comyns of the towne of
Northehampton and of the schyre a-boute sawe that the fals duke
and traytoure was so nyghe the Eyngys presens and was made hys
garde. The comyns a rosse uppon that fals traytur thee Duke of
Somersett, and wolde have slayne hym with yn the kyngys palys.
And thenn the kynge with fayre speche and grete defeculte savyde
hys lyffe for that tyme, and that was pytte, for the savjrnge of hys
lyffe at that tyme causyd mony mannys dethys son aftyr, as ye
shalle heyre. And then the Duke ^ sende that fals Duke of Somersett
in to a castelle of hys owne fulle secretly, for save garde of hys the
dukys lyffe, and the dukys men unto Newe Castelle, to kepe the

* Jnlj 25. Bnt there are priyy seals of this jear dated at Northampton on the
18th and 19th July.

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^^•^- towne, and gave hem goode wages fuUe treuly payde. And the
Kyng fuUe Ipvyngly gave the comyns of Northehampton a tonne
of wyne that they shulde drynke and make mery. And pe wy ne
was drunkyn merely in the market place, for they hadde many
fayre pecys of sylvyr. I darsay ther ys no taveme that hathe not
so moche of stuffe as they occupyde in hys • hyr tavemys. For sum
fette wyne in basynnys, and sum in caudryns, and sum in bollys,
and sum in pannys and sum in dyschys. Loo, the grete tresoure
that they scheuyd ]>at tyme.

Mathewe Phylyppe, r Muschampe 1 * ...-o

Mayre of London I Basset J

Thys yere, a-bute Mydsomyr, a the ryalle feste of the Sargantys
of the Coyfe, the Mayre of London was desyryde to be at that feste.
And at denyr tyme he come to the feste with his offecers, a-greyng
and a-cordyng unto hys degre. For with yn London he ys next
unto the kyng in alle maner thynge. And in tyme of waschynge
the Erie of Worseter was take be-fore the mayre and sette downe
in the myddys of the hy tabylle. And the mayre seynge that hys
place was occupyd hylde hym contente^ and went home a gayne
with owt mete or drynke or any thonke, but rewarde hym he dyd
as hys dygnyte requyryd of the cytte. And toke with hym the
substance of hys bretheryn the aldyrmen to his place, and were
sette and servyd also sone as any man couthe devyse, bothe of sygnet
and of othyr delycatys i-nowe, that alle the howse mervelyd howe
welle alle tynge was done in soo schorte a tyme, and prayde alle
men to be mery and gladde, hit shulde be a mendyd a nothyi
tyme.

Thenn the ofiesers of the feste, fulle evylle a schamyd, informyd
the maysters of the feste of thys mysse happe that ysbe-falle. And
they consyderynge the grete dygnyte and costys and charge that
longgyd unto the cytte, and a-non sende unto the mayre a present
of mete, brede, wyne, and many dyvers sotelteys. But whenn they
that come with the presentys say * alle the gyftys, and the sarvyse
that was at the horde, he was fulle sore a schamyd that shulde doo
• So in MS. *» saw.

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|?e massage, for the present was not better thenn the servyse of . ^^,AY;.
metys was by fore the mayre, and thoroughe owte the hyghe tabylle.
But hys demenynge was soo that he hadde love and thonke for hys
massage, and a grette rewarde with alle. And thys the worschippe
of the cytte was kepte, and not loste for hym. And I truste that
nevyr hyt shalle, by the grace of God.

Ande thys same yere a-boute Crystysmas that &ls Duke of
Somersett, with owte any leve of the kyng, stale owte of Walys
with a prevy mayny towarde the Newecastelle, for he and hys
men were confeteryde for to have be-trayde the sayde Newecastelle.
And in y wey thedyrwarde he was aspyde, and lyke to have ben
takyn be syde Dereham in hys bedde. Notwithstondynge he a
schapyde a-way in hys schyrt and barefote, and ij of hys men were
take. And they toke with hem that fals dukys caskette and hys
barneys. And whenn that hys men knewe that he was aschapyd,
and hys fids treson aspyde, hys men stale &om the Newecastelle as
very fals traytourys, and sum of hem were take and loste hyr
heddys for hyr labur, &c.

Ande thenn the kynge, owre soverayne lorde Edwar the iiij,
hadde knowleche of hys fids dysposyscyon of thys fals Duke Harry
of Somersett. The kynge sende a grete feleschippe of hys housolde
men to kepe the towne of Newecastelle, and made the Lorde Scrope
of Bolton captayne of the towne; and soo they kepte hyt surely alle
that wyntyr. Ande a-boute Ester nexte aftyr the Schottys sewyd
unto oure soverayne lorde the kynge for pes. And the kynge
ordaynyde Commyssourys to mete why the ]?e Schottys. The names
of the Commyssyonourys be wretyn here afiyr folowyng ;

The Chaunceler of Ingelond, And many othyr for the Eng-

The Erie of Warwycke, lysche partye, to brynge hyt

The Lorde Montegewe, to a conclusyon.

The poyntement was that they Schottys and J?ey shulde mete at
Yorke. And thenn was my Lorde of Mountegewe assygnyd to
fecche yn the Schottys pesseabylly, for he was Wardon of the
Marchys. And then my Lorde of Mountegewe toke hys jornaye
towarde the Newe castelle. And by the waye was fulle falsely

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A D^'i464 ^'P^"^^® ^* f^ls Duke Harry of Soraersett and Percy, with hyr
feleschyppe assocyat unto them, that there was layde by the waye,
a Ijrtylle from the Newecastel, in a woode, that fals traytoure Syr
Umfray Nevyle, with iiij schore sperys, and the bowys there too.
And they shulde have falle on the Lorde Mountegeue sodenly^ and
slayne hym sodenly, but, God be thonkyd, hyr faU treson was
aspyde and knowe. And thenne the Lorde Montegewe toke
a nothyr waye, and made to be gaderyd a grete feleschippe, and
went to the Newecastelle, and soo toke hys jomaye unto Norham
warde. Ande in the wey thedyrwarde there met with hym that fals
Duke of Somersette, Syr Raffe Percy, the Lorde Hungerforde, and
the Lorde Boos, whythe alle hyr company, to the nombyr of v M^
men of armys. And thys metynge was a pon Synte Markys day ; *
and that same day was Syr Baffe Percy slayne. And whenn that he
was dede alle ]?® party was schomfytyd and put to rebuke. Ande
every man avoydyd and toke hys way with fiille sory hertys. And
thenn my Loirde of Mountegeue toke hys hors and roode to Norham,
and fecchyd yn the Schotty8,and brought hem unto the Lordys Com-
myssyonourys. And there was concludyd a pes for xv yere with
the Schottys. And the Schottys ben trewe hyt moste nedys contynu
so longe, but hit ys harde for to tryste unto hem, for they byn evyr
founde fuUe of gyle and dyssayte.

Ande the xiiij daye of May nexte aftyr, my Lorde of Mountegeue
toke hys jomaye toward Hexham from the Newecastelle. And
there he toke )>at fals Duke Harry Beuford of Somersett, the Lord
Boos, the Lorde Hungerforde, Syr Pylyppe Wenteworthe, Syr
Thomas Fyndome, whythe many dpyi; loo, soo manly a man ys
thys good Erie Mountegewe, for he sparyd not hyr malysse, nor hyr
falssenysse, nor gyle, nor treson, and toke meny of men and slowe
many one in that jomaye.

The XV day of May folowjmge thys good Lorde Mountegewe let
to be smete of the heddys of thes men, the whyche that hyr namys
here folowyn in wrytyng:

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The Dukys hedde of Somersett, a^um

Edmon Fysche, knyght,
Summa v. ( Edmon Bradscbawe,

Water Hunte,

Blacke Jakys.

At the Newecastelle, the xvij day of May, he let to be smote of the
heddys, as the namys of hem done appere here aftyr in wrytynge:

Fyrste, the hedde of the Lorde Hungerforde,

The Lorde Roos,
Summa v. / Syr Thomas Fyndome,

Bamarde de la Mare,

Nycholas Massam.
Ande the xviij day of May he let to be smyte of* at Mydlam
the hedys of thes men that hyr namys folowyn here in wrytynge :

Syr Phylippe Wentworthe, knyght,

Wyllam Penyngton,

WardeofCopclyffe,**
Summa vij. ^ Ol3rver Wentworthe,

Wylliam Spyller,

John Senyer, of Yorke,

Thomas Hunte, foote man.
At Yorke, the xxvj day of May, he let to be smete of the heddys
of thos men that hyr namys folowyn here in wrytynge:
^ Syr Thomas Hoosy,

Thomas Grosse,

Robert Myrfyn,

John Butler,

Roberte Wattys, porter to Kyng Harry,

Thomas Fenwyke,

c .... J Robert Cockefelde,

Summa xiuj < „, „. ^

Wylliam Bryce,

I Wylliam Dauson,

* let to he imyte of. he smot let to be smyte of, MS.

^ Oopelyffe. Should be Topcliff. See extract at end of Warkworth's Chronicle
from Anmdel MS. No. 6, f. 170, at the College of ArmB.
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A.D. 1464.

226 gkegort's chronicle.

John Chapman,

John Edyrbeke,

Rycharde Taverner,

John Russelle,
^ Robert Conqueror.
Ande be syde Newecastelle, the same monythe, )?er was i-take
Taylbosse * in a cole pyt, and he hadde moche mony with hym,
bothe golde and sylvyr, that schulde have gon unto Kyng Harry:
and yf [it] ** had come to Harry, lat Kynge of Ingelonde, hyt wolde
have causyd moche sory sorowe, for he had ordaynyd hameys and
ordenance i-nowe, but the men wolde not go one fote with hym
tylle they had mony. And they waytyd dayly and howrely for
mony that thys Taylebosse shulde have send unto hem or brought
hyt; the summa was iij M^ marke. And the lordys mayny of
Montegewe were sore hurte and seke, and many of hys men wer
slayne by for in the grete jomays, but thys mony was departyd
a-monge hem, and was a very holsum salfe for hem. And in the
day folowyng Taylebosse loste hys hedde at Newecastelle.

Nowe take hede what love may doo, for love wylle not nor may
not caste no faute nor perelle in noo thyng.

That same yere, the fyrste day of May be fore sayde or wrete, cure
eoverayne lorde the Kynge, Edwarde the iiij, was weddyd to the
Lorde Ryvers doughter; hyr name ys Dame Elyzabethe, that was
wyffe unto Syr John Grey, sone and heyre unto the Lady Ferys of
Groby. And thys maryage was kepte fulle secretely longe and
many a day, that no roan knewe hyt; but men mervelyd that cure
soverayne lorde was so longe with owte any wyffe, and were evyr
ferde that he had be not chaste of hys levynge. But on Alle
Halowe day at Redyng there it was knowe, for there the kynge
kepte hys comyn counselle, and the lordys mevyd hym and ezortyd
hym in Goddys name to ben weddyd and to lyffe undyr the lawe of
Gbd and Chyrche, and they wold sente in too sum stronge lond to

• Sir William Tailbojrs, of South Kjme, Lincolnshire, who had been already
attainted with others of the Lancastrian partj. See Rolls of Pari. t. 477, 480.
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inquere a quene good of byrthe, a-cordyng unto hys dygnyte. And j^^{^^
thenn our soverayne myght not no longer hyde hys maryage, and
tolde hem howe he hadde done, and made that the maryage shuld
be oppynde unto hys lordys.

AUe so the same somer my Lorde of Warwycke and hys brether
the Lorde Mountegewe, that was made Erie of Northehumberlond
by the kynge, they ij layde a sege unto the castelle of Anwyke a
gate hyt by a-poyntement. And in the same wyse and forme they
gate the castelle of Dunsterborowe by the same mene. And thenne
they layd sege to the castelle of Bamborowe, and layde grete
ordynans and gonnys there too. And manly they gate hyt by fors,
and toke there yn that fals traytur Syr Baife Gray, and brought
hym unto the kynge to the castelle of Pomfrete. And fro thens
he was ladde to Dankester, and there hys hedde was smete of and
sent to London, and hyt was sette a-pon Londyn Bryge.

Kaffe Gosselyn, l John Tate i ^^^^ ^„

Mayre of Londyn ( John Stone 1

And thys yere was hyt ordaynyd that the noubylle of yj s. viij d.
shulde goo for viij s. iiij d. And a newe cunc was made. Fyrste
they made an Angylle and hit went for vj s. viij d., and halfe ande
Angyl for xld.; but they made non farthyngys* of that gold. And
thenne they made a gretter cune and namyd hyt a ryalle, and that
wentte for xs., and halfe the ryalle for vs., and the farthynge for
ijs. vj d. And they made newe grotys not soo goode as the olde,
but they were worthe iiij d. And then sylvyr rosse to a grytter
pryce, for an unce of sylvyr was sette at iij s., and better of sum
sylvyr. But at the be-gynnynge of thys mony men grogyd passynge
sore, for they couthe not rekyn that gold not so quyckely as they
dyd the olde golde. And men myght goo thoroughe owte a strete
or thoroughe a hoole parysche or that he myght chonge hit. And
sum men sayd that the newe golde was not soo good as the olde
golde was, for it was alayyd.

Alle soo in thys yere in the mony the of May was Quenc Elyzabet

• That 18 to say, no qaartcr angels.

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Edw. IV. crownyd at Westemyster. And many knyghtys were made of the
Bathe, of the whyche the were v aldyrmen of the cytte of London
imade with hem. Thee v aldyrmen were made knyghtys of the
Bathe:

Syr Hewe Wyche, mercer,

Thomas Coke, draper,

Raffe Gosselyn, draper,

Syr John Plomer,

Syr Harry Whafyr.
And no moo of the cytte but thes v, and hyt ys a grete wor-
schyppe unto alle the cytte.

AUe soo that yere be-ganne a gre cyssym by twyne fryers and
prystys, but the Fryer Charmys, that ys to saye the Whyte Freers,
be-ganne hyt fryste at Poules Crosse. He that be-ganne thys matyr
was borne in Flete Strete, a skjmer ys sone, and hys name ys Syr
Harry Parker; ho blamyd men for there grete copy of hyr goodys,
and in specyalle he blamy [d] benefysyd men that had grete benyficys
and prestys that had temporalle lyffelod. For he sayd and affermyd
that non of the xij Apostolys nor Crjste hadde no thyng in propyr
but alle in comyn, and sayd and affyrmyd by hys connyng, as
strong as he cowthe, that Cryste was a begger and had nought but
by way of almys. And that made men to groge and to muse
passyng soore.

But the Sonday aftyr there was a docter of devynyte, Maystyr
Wylliam Ive, the mayster of Whytyngdon ys College, sayde agayne
the fryer, and prevyd that Cryste was poore and kepte noo grete
tresoure, but as for beggyng he utterly denyde hyt, and by hooly
scrypture prevyd hit soo that men undyrstode that the fryer erryd
sore agayne Hooly Chy rche ; ande thenne the fryers gan malyngne
a gayne thys docter. Thenne in Advente they prevyde a docter of
the Whyte Fryers, Mastyr Thomas Haldon,* and that he schulde
preche agayne p Mayster Wylliam Ive before sayd, and there he
talkyd moke of the beggyng of Cryste, and put the pepylle** that the

* Originally written " Waldon '* and afterwards corrected.
*> We should probably supply " in hope*'-

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same mater schulde ben determenyd in there scholys by twyne hym Bdw. IV.

and a Grey Fryer at the White Fryers in Flete Strete the'Wanys-

daye vij nyght aftyr. And the Sonday folowyng, a docter of

devynyte, Mayster Edwarde Story, person of Alle Halowys the

More in London, and afbyr confessor unto the Quene, and aftyr that

Byschoppe of Carlylle,* prechyd at Poulys Crosse, and as moche

as he myght wolde have passefyde the mater, and sayde that hyt [was^]

blasphemy soo to reherse and say by oure Lord Cryste. But that

same Sonday the fryers set uppe byllys at every chyrche dore that

the docter sayde nott trought, but the trought shulde be schewyd

ande sayd by Docter Mayster John Mylverton, the pryor of the same

place, and he was provyneyalle of the same ordyr. And that aftyr

noone in hys sarmon he raylyd score and grevysly to fortefy hys

bretheryn ys sayyngys, that sum laye men were wrothe with the

fryers and whythedrewe hyr almys from them; and sum men were

not plesyd with hyr curettes, and sayde that they hadde noo ryght

to have any offerynge but lyffeby almys as Cryste dyde; ande thys

men were devydyd, sum welle and sum ylle.

But the Wanysday the docter, Mayster Halden, kepte the scholys
with in the Fryers and dysputyd a gayne a Gray Fryer as he
promysyd; and at that scholys were many grete docters and clerkys
to geve hym audyens. And they thought he yode soo farre that
Mayster Alcocke,® a docter of lawe and commyssary unto the Dene
of Synt Martyns in the Graunte, assytyd the fryer that he shulde
appere by fore the Arche Byschoppe of Cauntylbury at Lambeffe.
And the fryer sayde he wold not obbey his cytacyon, for alle
fryers ben exempte for alle the byschoppe ys power, but hit were
for eresy ; and the docter of lawe sytyd hym for eresy.

Thenne at the begynnyng of the terme aftyr Estyr the fryer
apperyd by fore Mayster Docter Wynterbome, my lordys offycer
and juge in suche causys and othyr as for spyrytualte. And per
were many worthy docters a gayne the fryer, but he lenyd evyr

* He was appointed Bishop of Carlisle in 1468, and was translated to Cliichester
in 1478.
»> Omitted in MS.
« John Alcock, afterwards Bishop of Ely.

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AiT'iAfifi ^^^ ^'® prevelege, but he schewyd non but a bylle unselyd.
Thenne the mater was put to my Lorde of London, by so moche
that alle thys trobylle was done in hys dyossy, and the Chaunceler
of Inglond, that was my Lorde of Warwycke ys brother,* toke
party a-gayne the fryers; and the day folowynge the provyncyalle
and Docter Haldon come to Poulys by fore my Lorde of London
and brought hyr prevelegys with hem, but J?* prevelege wolde not
serve that tyme for noo cause of eresy. And my lorde lawfiiUv
a-sylyd them to appere by fore hym that same aftyr non, but they
come not, for the provyncyalle toke hys way a-non towarde Rome.
And Docter Haldon toke noo leve of the byschoppe. And thenn
my Lord Chaunceler hyrde that they were gone, and send for the
yong fryer Harry Parker and commaundyd hym to preson. And
he was take from preson and sende unto my Lorde of London.
And the Sonday aftyr the same fryer, Harry Parker, objuryd that
he sayd, and sayde as we saye, that Cryste ys lorde of ovyr alle
thynge, and he confessyd alle so that very nede causyd them to
saye that Cryste beggyd, by cause that men shulde take the ordyr of
fryers moste parfytyste of alle orders.

But one fryer couthe not be ware by a nother, for with a whyle
in the vacacyon tyme a Blake Fryer prechyd alle moste the same.
And he was exampnyd by fore my Lorde of London, and was
made to preche agayne and revokyd. Thenne my Lord of London
cursyd thes ij docters, Mayster John Mylverton and Docter Thomas
Halden, at Poulys Crosse for there contymacy, and hyt happy d that
Pocter Ive dyde the execucyon of the curse, and )?at grevyd the
nryers score, and sayde that he w^s sette alle in malys ; but thys
Docter Ive myght not chese.

Ande be fore thys^ tyme the fore sayde Docter Ive kepte
the scolys at Poulys*' J?at ys undyr the chapter house, and there he
radde many fuUe nobylle lessonnys to preve that Cryste was lorde of
alle and noo begger, and he dyde hyt aftyr the forme of scholys, for

■ Greorge Nerill, Archbishop of York.
^ thys repeated in MS.

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he hadde hys abyte and hys pelyon, and a vyrger with a sylvyr ^fj^'.JT:

rodde waytynge uppon hyin. And the same fryer of Menors that

anaweryd the Whyte Fryer answeryd hym onys, and many tymys

he dyspute and radde in that scholys; he kepte hyt more then ij

yere. Thenn the fryers straynyd curtesy whoo sholde answery

hym. And ssum fryers desyryd to answerye hym, but at the day

of hyr desyre J?ey apperyd not. And thenn men layde grete wagers

the Provyncyalle wolde come home and doo many thyngys, and

causyd that a fryer of Rome made a tretysse of the beggyng of

Cryste, that welle was hym that myght have a copy of hyt, and

they were to sylle at many placys in Rome, and sum were sende

home to the Whyte Freers, but yet hit happyd that they come to

thys Docter Ive, that he undyr stode the consayte welle i-nowe and

sayde fulle lytylle or nought.

Thenn the Pope * havyng woundyr of the coroplaynt of thys
fryer, and inqueryde of suche men as come late owte of Inglonde
of the mater; and whenne he undyrstode the mater, he wrote downe
to the Arche Byschoppe of Cauntyrbury and to the Byschoppe of
London, and thonkyd hem that they were so trewe to Cryste and
Hooly Chyrche, and desyryd to have alle the hoole mater and
proscesse i-sende unto hym by wrytynge. And so hyt was, every
thyng as ny as they couthe ymageny, puttyng alle favyr and par-
cyallyte and malysce a syde.

But the very trewe processe thys nobylle Docter Ive vnrote unto
the Pope* the maner, sajryng, and prechyng in hyr^ sermonys,
bothe hys doyng and sayyng, as welle as the fryers, and the actys
of bothe scholys. And ix docters of devynyte and bachelers of
devynyte subscrybyd hyr namys with hyr owne hondys, and
testefyde that alle was trewe that thys sayde Docter Ive hadde
wretyn, for hyt was exampnyd and radde by fore alle j^ byschoppys
that tyme beyng at London, and by the same docters and clerkys
that subscrybyd. And that large and grete letter was sende with

* Pope, Altered into " bnsshope '' in a later hand, both here and in leTeral
instances after.
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A^^^fiM the byschoppys letters. And yf that Docter Ivys letter hadde ben
i-selyd with sum lordys sele spyrytualle, or an notarys syne there
on, the freer had ben brende in shorte tyme; hit hadde non othyr
sele but hys owne sygnett.

Ande the kynge toke a grete party on thys mater, for thes firyers
hadde causyd moche trobylle a monge hys pepylle, and therefore he
desyryd that holy fadyr the Pope * to chastysse suche trespasserrys
and brekers of the pesse, and send forthe a letter with the othyr
letters.

Thenne the Pope * ressayvyd thes letters, and undyrstode alle the
hoole processe, and made hys cardjmallys to exampne the fryer, and
by hys answerynge they found ix moo poyntys that he lerryd on,
and sone aftyr he was put into the castylle of Angylle in stronge
preson, and laye there yn alle moste iij yere. And evyr hys frendys
and the fryers lokyd aftyr hys comjmg home, but he may not, for
he hathe bund hym sylfe unto the Pope * by an yryn oblyacyn ^
faste i-selyd a-boute hys ij helys. And J?en he lackyd mony and
frende schyppe, submyttyd hym to the Pope; * but whenn he shalle
cum hom I wotte not, but for sothe hys artyculys ben dampnyd,
whether he be or nought I wot ner; I truste ye shalle knowe b&jt
in tyme comyng by Goddys grace, hoo have us alle in hys blessyd
kepyng. Amen for cheryte.

Raffe Vemay, j Costantyne i * o •©

Mayre of London I Syr Harry Wafer j

That yere the mayr had a pesabylle yere and a plentefuUe of alle
Goddys goode. And he festyd the kyng, the quene, and the queue
ys modyr, the lady of Bedford, and many othyr lordys. And
whenn they had done and dynyd the offesers [had] ^ to there reward
the clothe of state that was ovyr the tabylle, honggyng ovyr hit.
And the substance of napery was gyffe with dy vers men of ofl^ce.

Alle so that yere Kyng Harry that was come in to Lonkesschyre
owte of Schotlond; tylle he com in to Fomeysse Fellys he was
nevyr i-knowe, but there he was knowe and take, and a pon Syn

» « Bisshope " is written orer in a later hand in all these instances.
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Jamys eve he was brought to the Towre of London, and iij moo ^^- IV.

with hym; ij were hys chapelaynys, Mayster Docter Bydon, Docter

of Devynyte, and Mayster Thomas Mannynge, Bacheler of Lawe,

and sum tyme Dene of Wyndesore and secretary unto the Queue.

But he was sone delyveryd owte of preson by cause J?at he was

agyd and infecte with a whyte lepyr. But Docter Bydon was in

preson long tyme, and hys &endys laboryd for hym soore and payde

moche mony for hys delyverans. But he couthe not kepe hys

tounge, but in schorte tyme he was put yn a gayne, and was there

more thenne a quarter of a yere, and pen uppon hys othe he was

delyveryd and ys owte of donger, &c.

John Yonge, \

Mayre of London; f John Brommer i a ••«

« 1 1 ) T, T^ ! Anno vl^^

menne callyd hym i Harry Bryce )

the good Mayre /

That yere the mayre beryd [his] • lady, and hys scheryffe and hys
swyrdeberer. And thenn Stocketon )?e mercer was chose for Harry
Bryce, the scheryffe that was, and he was made scheryffe fro that
tyme tylle Mychellemasse, and no lenger.

AUe soo thys same yere there was an herryke i-brende at the
Towre Hylle, for he dyspysyd the sacrament of the auter; hys
name was Wylliam Balowe, and he dwellyd at Walden. And he
and hys wyffe were abjuryd longe tyme be-fore. And my Lorde of
London kepte hym in preson longe tyme, and he wolde not make
noo confessyon unto noo pryste, but oonly unto God, and sayde that
no pryste had noo more pouer to hyre confessyon thenn Jacke
Hare. And he had no consyence to ete ilesche aftyr Estyr, as
welle as thoo that were bothe schryffe and houselyd.

At the tyme of hys brennynge a Docter, Mayster Hewe Damelet,
person of Syn Petrys in the Comehylle, laboryd hym to be-leve in
the hooly sacrament of the auter. And thys was the herytyke ys
sayyng : " Bawe I bawe I bawe 1 What menythe thys pryste ? Thys
I wotte welle, ]^at on Goode Fryday ye make many goddys to be
putte in the sepukyr, but at Ester day they can not a ryse them

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AjS'im ^^^^' ^^^ ^^^* y® moste lyfte them uppe and bere th^m forthe, or
ellys they wylle ly stylle yn hyr gravys." Thys was that tjnne of
hys departyng from J?at worechipfiille docter.

AUe soo that same yere there were many chyrchys robbyd in the
cytte of London only of the boxys with the sacrament. And men
had moche wondyr of thys, and sad men demyd that there had ben
sum felyschippe of heretykys assocyat to gederys. But hyt was
knowe aftjrr that it was done of very nede that they robbyd,
wenyng unto the thevys that the boxys hadde ben sylvyr ovyr
gylt, but was but copyr. And by a copyr smythe hit was a spyde
of hyr longe contynuans in hyr robbory. At a tyme, alle the hole
feleschippe of thevys sat at sopyr to gedyr, and had be fore hem
fulle goode metys. But that copyr smythe sayde, " I wolde have a
more deynty mosselle of mete, for I am wery of capon, conynge,
and chekyns, and suche smalle metes. And I mervyl I have ete ix
goddys at my sopyr that were in the boxp." And that schamyd
sum of them in hyr hertys. Ande a smythe of lokyers crafte, that
made hyr instrumentes to opyn lockys, was |?er that tyme, for hit
was sayde at the sopyr in hys howse. And in the momynge he
went to chyrche to hyre a masse, and prayde God of marcy; but
whenn the pryste was at the levacyon of the masse he myght not
see that blessyd sacrament of the auter. Thenn he was sory, and
a bode tylle a nothyr pryste wente to masse and helpyd the same
pryste to masse, and say * howe the oste lay a-pon the auter and alle
the tokyns and sygnys that the pryste made; but whenn the pryste
hylde uppe that hooly sacrament at the tyme of levacyon he myght
se no thynge of that blessyd body of Cryste at noo tyme of the
masse, not somoche at Agnus Dei; and thenn he demyd that hit
had ben for febyllenys of hys brayne. And he went unto the ale
howse and dranke a ob.** of ^oode alle, and went to chyrche agayne,
and he helpyd iij moo prystys to masse, and in no maner a wyse he
ne myght se that blessyd sacrament; but 'pen bothe he and hys
feleschyppe lackyd grace. And in schorte tyme aftyr iiij of hem
were take, and the same lokyer was one of y iiij, and they were
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put in Newegate. And by processe they were dampnyd for that Eclw. IV
trespas and othyr to he hangyd and to be drawe fro Newegate to * '
Tybome, and soo they were. And the same daye that they shulde
dy they were confessyd. And thes iiij docters were hyr con-
fessourys, Mayster Thomas Eberalle, Maystyr Hewe Damylett,
Mayster Wylliam Ive, and Mayster Wylliam Wryxham. Thenn
Mayster Thomas Eberalle wente to masse, and that lokyer aftyr
hys confessyon myght see that blessyd sacrament welle i-nowe, and
thenne rejoysyd and was gladde, and made an opyn confessyon by
fore the iiij sayde docters of devynyte. And I truste th|it hyr
soulys ben savyd.

Lo, ye obstinat herytykys that holdjrthe a-gayn confessyon, here
ys an exampylle grete i-nowe to converte you yf ye have any grace
withyn you, for the boke sajthe that non est verior probacio quam
oculorum demonatracio. But ye ben soo i-blyndyd that thoughe
ye hyre of suche men that have sene suche thjmgys ye wylle not be
leve but ye hit see, and thenn ye lese your demeryte; for scripture
saythe, Fides non habet meritum tdn humana racio habet eaperu
mentum. God geve you to a mende. Amen.

Thytf yere there come many inbasyters into Ingelond fro the
Kynge of Fraunce for many dyvers thynges, but they desyryd a
perpetualle pesse. Aod sum inbassyters com fro the Kyng of
Spayne,* And a Patryarke come from the Emperoure,** and that
Patryarke was of Antyoche. And from Schotlond come inbassyters.
And sum com from the Duke of Burgon,® and sum from Bratayne.
Also there com inbassjrters from the Kynge of Napyllys.* And
ihbassytors com from the Conte de Ferare.® And that same yere
come a legatt from the Pope; ' and he lay at Syn Bartholomewe the

'^ Probably Alfonso, who was proclaimed King of Castile on the deposition of his
brother Henry the Impotent, in 1466.

*• Frederic IIL

• It is uncertain which Duke of Bnrgnndy is here intended. Dnke Philip died
on the 15 Jnne, 1467, and was succeeded by his son Charles the Bold.

^ Ferdinand I. • Borso Dnke of Ferrara (not Coont) is donbtless intended.

' ** Bishop *' in later hand written oieu

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Edw. IV. Lasse in a grete place of a Lombardys, and he kepte a goode hous-
holde, and hys men were fulle welle gydyd. That legat wolde
nevyr come at noo festys nor dyners with no man, with kyng nor
lorde, save with grete instance he rode to More with the Arche
Byschoppe of Yorke, and dynyd there and com home to hysbedde.
Where fore that he com to thys lond fulle fewe men can say, but
he wag the best Latyn man that com into Inglond many yerys,
and fulle curtesse with alle. Men drede that in tyme comyng hit
wylle be knowe that hys comyng hedyr was kept so prevely.

Alle so the same yere there was dede of armys done by fore
Mydsomer in Smethefylde by twjme the Lorde Schalys, the Quenys
brother, and the Bastarde of Burgoyn, bothe on horsse backe and
in fote; but I wot not what I shalle say of hit, whethyr hit was
fortune, crafte, or cunnynge, but thys ys a trought, that the
Bastarde of Burgayn lay in the fylde bothe hors and man, and hys
hors was so brusyd that he dyde with a whyle aftyr. Thenne the
nexte tyme they fought on fote fulle welle. I reporte me unto hem
that saye* thys : I doo aftyr hyryng. Or ax of em that felde the
strokys, they can telle you best.

Alle so that sam tyme there was dede of armys done by twynne
ij Gasconys of the kjmgys house and other ij men of the Bastarde
of Borgayn. And the ij men in the kjmgys party ther namys were
Thomas Dalalaund, and that othyr Lewys de Brytellys; and that
orthyr ij men in the Bastard ys syde there namys were Syr John
de Gassy, knyght, and that othyr Botton, squyer. But the kjmges
men were better thenn they, bothe an hors backe and on foote.
And thes dedys of armys was for lyffe and dethe. And soo hyt
was by twyne the Lorde Schalys and the Bastarde of Burgayne.
Thomas Olgrave, j Umfray Hayforde j a ..-o

Mayre of London I Thomas StaJbroke I

That yere were meny men a pechyd of treson, bothe of the cytte
and of othyr townys. Of the cytte Thomas Coke, knyght and
aldyrman, and John Plummer, knyght and aldyrman, but the kyng

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gave hem bothe pardon. And a man of the Lorde Wenlockys, ^'^^
John Haukyns was hys name^ was hangyd at Tybume and be
heddyd for treson.

And Umfray Hayforde, the Scheryffe of London, was a pechyd
and loste hys cloke for the same mater; and many moo of the cytte
loste moche goode for suche maters.

Ande that same yere the Kyngyssuster, my Lady Margerete, was
weddyd unto the Duke of Burgon; and she was brught thedyr with
many worschypftdle lordp, knyghtys, and squyers, Ajid the
Byschoppe of Salysbury* resayvyd hyr, for he hadde ben in that
londe many dayes before. And sum genlylly men that brought
hyr there bare hem soo evylle in hyr gydynge, that they loste hyr
heddys at London sone after that they come home. One Ryehard
Skjnrys, squyer, Pounyngys, and Alphey, the iij were by heddyd at
the Towre Hylle.

AUe so that yere the Lorde Herberd of Walys gate the castelle
of Hardelowe in Walys; that castylle ys so stronge that men sayde
that hyt was inpossybylle unto any man to gete hyt, but poyntment
hit was gotyn.^ And sum of the pety captaynys were be-heddyd at
Towre Hylle at London, for that castelle was fortefyd and vytaylyd
by suche at lovyd Kyng Harry; one of the men was callyd John
Treublode.

A lie soo that yere, a lytylle be-fore the sege of that castelle, the
olde Lorde Jesper and sum tyme Erie of Pembroke was in Walys;
and he roode ovyr the contraye and helde many cessyons and cysjrs
in Kjmg Harrys name. But men wene that he was not owte of
Walys whenn that the Lord Herberde come with hysoste; butfevyr
at sum tyme dothe grete ese, as hit ys prevyd by the hydynge of
that lorde sum tyme Erie of Penbroke.

Alle so that same yere the men that come home from Brougayne*

at hadde ben at the maryage of my Lady Margarete were purposyd

to have myschevyd alle the Flemmyngys in Sowtheworke. And

they wolde have take hyr conselle at a crosse be syde Redclyffe;

« Ric. Beanchamp. ** So in MS. * Bnrgnndj.

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i^^i46a.9 ^^^ alaosone as they myght have hadde any botys )?ey wolde have
londyd at Horsey Downe and take the Fleramyngys owte of hyr
beddys and slayne them; and many bot men were consentjmg unto
hem, but they were a spyde and lette of hyr purposse. And tho )?at
were the causers of thys mater were set in preson.

Alle so hit was reportyd by the moste party of thoo men that
com from the maryage, that aftyr the di^yes that were assygnyd
that every man shuld wayte a pon hys owne lord, lady, or mayster,
and com noo more at the dukys corte, that the Burgoners shewyd
no more favyr unto Englysche men thenn they wolde doo unto a
Jewe. For mete and drynke was dyre i-nowe as thoughe hit hadde
ben in the londe of warre, for a schuldyr of motyn was solde for
xij d. And as for beddyng, Lyard my hors had more ese thenn
had sum good yeman, for my hors stode in the howse and the
yeman sum tyme lay with owte in the strete, for las and * iiij d a
man shulde not have a bedde a nyght Lo howe sone they couthe
play the nygardys !

Alle so that yere the Pope ^ sende a bulle for the Cordyners, and
cursyd thoo that made any longe pykys passynge ij yenchys ^ of
lengthe, and that no Cordjmer shuld not sylle no schone a pone the
Sonday, ne put no schoo a pon no man ys fote^ ne goo to noo
fayrys a pon the Sonday uppon payne of cursynge. And the kynge
grauntyd in a conselle and in the Parlement that hyt shulde be put
in excecussyon, and thys was proclaymyd at Poulys Crosse. And
sum men sayd that they wolde were longe pykys whethyr Pope
wylle or nylle, for they sayde the Popys curse wolde not kylle a
flye. God amend thys. And with in schorte tyme aftyr sum of the
Cordyners gate prevy selys and proteccyons to make longe pykys,
and causyd tho same men of hyr crafte that laboryd to the Pope for
the dystruccyon of longe pykys to be trobelyd and in grete donger.

* andf 80 in MS. ^ ** Bisshope ** as before.

^ yenchys. The initial y is dotted both above and below, perhaps to indicate
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MaystyrTayler. , gynkyn Smythe | Anno «•. ^D.-Uii.

Mayre of London j ' •

That same yere in the Lenlyn, whyle men were at sarmonys the
Sonday aftyr noon, a yong man that was watyng a pon a man of
the kyngys house was soore vexyd and bound with the devylle.
And that man aftyr tyme that he was unbound by mannys hondys
lay specelys long tyme aftyr. And as sone as he myght speke men
of worschippe com to hym, and sum grete statys alle so com to
hym and desyryd hym to telle hem of hys syghtys that he had sene
in hys ferfidle vexacyon. And he tolde them many thyngys that
he say,* as ye shalle hyre here aftjrr by wrytyng and by confessyon
of hym selfe unto the Pryer of Chartyr Howse, and to many dyvers
docters. For the Pryer of Chartyrhouse mada a grete dyner to the
docters, -**

• Saw.

*^ Here the MS. breaks off abruptly at the bottom of the page; but some leares
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APPENDIX.

MAYORS AND SHERIFFS.
(See page 57, note.)

As there are some inaccuracies in the list of Mayors and Sherififs
contained in Gregory's Chronicle, it was my intention at first to have
corrected them in footnotes on comparing them with other lists ; but I
found that the errors were in some cases very complicated, and that
there is no such thing as a complete and accurate list existing. Very
often, both in this and other Chronicles, the city officers for one year
are assigned to another; sometimes the years are transposed; and
sometimes the lists for a whole sequence of years are put one year too
early or too late. Further, there are very great variations in the names
themselves, many of which are obviously due to transcribers' errors,
while many others are genuine aUaseSy owing to the frequent use in
early times of different surnames for the same person. But as it is not
in all cases certain to which particular cause each variation is due, and
which authority is to be preferred, I subjoin a list, compiled from various
sources, of the Mayors and Sheriffs from the beginning of King John's
reign to the ninth year of Edward IV., showing all the variations and
discrepancies to the end of Edward I.'s reign.

For the Sheriffs the most certain authority is the official list of
Sheriffs compiled from the records of the Exchequer, which is printed
in Report XXXI. of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, page 308.
This is referred to by the letter O. There is, however, no similar list
of Mayors. The other authorities referred to are as follows : —

Fabyan's Chronicle, referred to by the letter . . F.

Liber de Antiquis L^bus „ „ . . A.

Short Chronicle in Appendix to the preceding . . Ap.

MS. Harl. 565, referred to by the letter . . . H.

MS. Cott., Jul. B. I. „ „ ... J.

MS. Cott., Vitell. A xvi. „ „ ... V.

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Year, Mayor$. 8keriff$,

1 John, 1199 (1198, AmulfiiB fiz Amnlfi; fflins AUiel-

A.yAp.) hulphi, A.; Arnand filiu Alnfy

Ap.; Arnold fiz Arnold, F.; Ar-
naldoB filioB Alnlfi, 0.
Bjchardns fii Barthi,— filins Bariho-
lomei, A., or filins Barthelmen,
Ap.; fiz Dartj, F. ; Bicardns
Blnndos, O.

2 John, 1200 (1199, Bobetus Deserte; Bogeros de De-

A., Ap.) serto. A., O.; Boger de Desert, .

Ap. ; Boger Desert, F.
Jacohos fiz Barthyn; Jaoobns Alder*
mannnft, A., O.; Jacob Alderman,
Ap.; Jamys fiz Barth, F.

3 John, 1201 (1200, Wyllelmns fiz Alysiej filins AHciei

A., Ap.) A., 0. ; filins Aliz, Ap.; fyz Alyze,

F.
Simon de AldermanbniTe, G., F., A.,
Ap., O.

4 John, 1202 (1201, ... Norman Blnnden ; NormannnsBlnn-

A., Ap.) dns. A., 0.; Norman Blondell, F.;

Norreman le Blnnt, Ap.
John Ely; or, of IHj, F.; Johannes
de Kayo, A.; Johan de Eai, Ap.

6 John, 1203 (1202, Waltems Browne, G., F.; Bnm,

A., Ap.) A.; Bnmns^ O.; Waltere k Bnm,

Ap.
Wyllelmns Qiambyrlayne, G., F.;
W. Camerarios, A.; Willam le
Chanmberleyn, Ap.

6 John, 1204 (1203, Thomas Havyiylle, G., F. ; deHayer-

A., Ap.) ille, A., Ap.; de HaTerhella, O.

Hamonde Bronde, G., F., A.; Brande,
Ap., O.

7 John, 1206 (1204, John Walhame; Walgrare, F., H,,

. A., Ap.) J.; Wahraven, A.; Waleran, Ap.;

Walerain, O.
Bicardos Wynton; de Wyntona, A.,
O.; de Wincestre, Ap.; of Win-
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Tear.

8 John, 1206 (1205,
A., Ap.)

9 John, 1207 (1206,
A., Ap.) (9 Jdm,
1208-9, F.)»

10 John, 1208 (1207,
A., Ap.) (9 John,
1207-8, H.) •

11 John, 1209 (1208,
A., Ap.)

Mayori,

12 John, 1210 (1209, The same
A., Ap.)

Henricns filins Al-
wynne; fix Alwjn,
F. ; or filioB Eyl-
wyni. A."* (The first
major.)

IS John, 1211 (1210,
A., Ap.)

The

8heriff9,

Johannes Holjlonde, O., F.; Heti-

land, A.$ Elylond, Ap.; Johannes

filins ^inandi, O.
Edmnndns fiz Gerard!, G., F.; filins

Gerardi, O. ; Eadmnndns de la

Hale, A., Ap.
Henricns de S. Alhano, G., A., O.;

de Seint Anhan, Ap.; Hugh of

Seynt Albon, F.
Serle, mercer, G., F.; Serlo le Mercer,

A., Ap.; tSerlo Mercerins, 0.
J20^0nf«W7nche8ter,G.,F.; Boheitns

de Wintona, A., O.; Robert de

Wincestre, Ap.
EdmundM Hardell, G., F.; WiUel-

mns. A., Ap., 0.
Petms Bnkke; Dnke, F., H., J.; le

Dnc, A., Ap., O.
Thomas fiz Nele; Thomas NeeU, F.;

filins Nigelli, A. ; filins Neal, Ap.;

Thomas Aldermannns, O.
Fietms Josowe; Petms Josne, H.;

Peter Tonge, F.; Petms Jnnior,

A.; Peres le Jnyene, Ap.; Petre

le Joesne, J.; Petms Nenknn, O.
WillelmnsBlnnte; Wyllyam Elande,

F.; William Gland, H.; Willicl-

mns Wite, A., Ap.; WiUelmas

Blnndns, O.
Adam Whytteby; Whateley, H.;

Whetely, J.; Whetley, F. ; de

Wyteby, A., Ap.; de Withebi, O.
Stephin Grace; le Graas, F., 0.;

Stephanns Crassns, A., Ap.

* Fabyan inaccurately places the sherifEs (or bailiffs) of this ninth year before
those of the eighth ; bnt calls both years ** Anno iz.'^ H. and J. gire the names of
the sheriffs for the tenth year as those of the ninth, and so misdate by a year the
officers dnring the rest of the reign.

*» According to the Liber de Antiqnis Legibns his mayoraKy b^gan in 1188, the
first year of Bichard I.

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Tear.

14 John, 1212 (1211,
A., Ap. 19 John,
G.)»

Mayori,

8heHff$,

15 John, 1213 (1212, The same
A., Ap. 14 Jdin,
G.)

Henricns fiUiis Al- JoeensfiliosPen; JosnefitzPet,?.;
Wynne Jooens filioB Petri, A., O.; Qoce

Bz Peres, Ap.
John Qerlande or Garlonde, G., A.,

Ap., O.
Rafe Holylonde; Helyland, A.; Ey-
lande, P.; Radtdfas Elyland, A|>.
Constantinos JoBwe; Constantyne le
Josne, F. ; Constantinas Junior, A. ;
Costentin Jarenis, Ap.
Martyn fiz Alesye; Fiz Alls, F.;
filins Alicie, a1, O.; fil Alix, Ap.
Petms Batte, G., F., Ap.; Bath, A.
Sahnan Jtatynge, G.} Salomon Ba-
synge or de Basinge^, A., O., F.,
Ap.
Hngo Basynge or de Basingea
John Trayers, G., F., A., Ap.
Androwe Newland, G., F.; Neyelmi,

A.; Veyelnn, Ap.
Benedictos Campanarins, A; or

Benoit le Seynter, Ap.
Willelmos Blnndns, A., Ap.
[Fabyan repeats the names of the mayors and sherilb of 17
John under this year, and the o£Bcial list of sherifih is
blank for this year; while Gregory gires as sheriffs
Bicardns Smnptorer and Wyllelmns Blome TraTers,and
v. Richard Smnpte and William Blonte.]

2 „ 1217-8 Robert Serle, mercer Thos. Bnkrelle

Ralph Gylonde or Helylannde; Eli-
nant, O.; Eylond, V.

3 H 1218-9 The same JohnVyele

John Spycer, G.; Spencer, V.; Goce

le Pesenr, Ap.; Joceos Ponderator,

A.,0.

[Fabyan gives as sherifb Benet le Ceytur (? Ceyntor) and

Will. Blonnde, who appear to have been sherifih in the first

year; after which he places all the mayors and sheriffs a

year later than they ought to be till the ninth year.]

* Our Chronicle leares the date of the thirteenth year blank, and dates erery
sacceeding year of John's reign one year too early.

16 John, 1214 (1213,
A., Ap. 15 John,
G.)

17 John, 1215 (1214,
A., Ap. 16 John,
G.)

18 John, 1216 (1216,
A., Ap. 17 John,
G.)

1 Hen. m. 1216-7

Rogems fiz Aleyne

Serle, mercer

Willelmos Ardelle ;
HardeU, F., A.

Jas. Alderman; after-
wards S(^omon Ba-
sing

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Year,
4 Hen. m. 1219-20

6 „ 1220-1

7 „ 1222^

8 „ 1223-4

9 „ 1224-6

10

«
11

1225-6
1226-7

Mayori,
Bobert Serle, mercer

The same

1221-2 The same

Bie. Bonger; or Beyn-
The same
The same

The
The

12

»>

1227-8

BogerDuke. F. dates
Bogerl>iike'8mayor-
alty in the eleventh
year

18

»

1228-9

The same

14

»>

1229-30

The same

15

n

1230-1

The same

16

n

1231-2

Andrew Bokerelle. F.
continues Boger
Dnke this year, bnt
old ed. has A. Bo-
kerell

Shsriffi.

Bic. Wimbledon

John Vyele; or Wayell, F.

Bic. Benger

John le Joswe; Josens le Joene, F.$
Joceos Junior, A.; Goce Jnyenis,
Ap.; Joscens filins Willelmi, O.

Bic. Bonger; Benger, A., Ap,; Bein-
ger, 0.; Joyner, F.

Th<»nas Lambert

Will Joyner

Thoe. Lambert

John Travers

Andrew Bokerell

The same. Bat G. and V. giye as
sherifb the names of those of the
tenth year, and pnt all the sheriffs
following one year too early till
the thirty-ninth year

Boger Dnke

Marthi Fitz William

The same. F. gives the sheriA of
the twelfth year as those of the
eleventh, and like G. antedates all
the shrievalties following to the
thirty-ninth year

Stephen Bnkerel; Bntler, G.

Henry de Cokham; Golleham, G.|
Cobham, F., V.

The same

Walter of Winchester

Bobert Fits John

Bichard Fits Walter; Fits William,

G.,F.
John Wonbnme or Wodebome
Michael de Sancta Helena
Walter Denfelde, G., F.; Walter le

Bni^le, A.; le Bnfle, Ap.; le Bnfler,

O.

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Tear.

Moforg.

8h<fHff$.

17Hen.IIL 1232-S

Andrew Bokerelle.

Henry de Edelmeton

Gerard Bat

18

9f

1233-4

The same

Simon Fits Mary
Boger Blnnt

19

»»

1234-5

The same

Balph Ashwy, Aswy, or Bswy ; Blwy,

A.
John Norman

20

19

1285-6

The same

G^erard Bat; Bemardui Batte, G.
BobertHaidel

21

n

1236-7

The same

V.

Jordan de CoTentre

22

99

1237-8

Richard Benger; Bic.
Roger, G.

John de Tnlesan; Tresalano, G.

Gerard Coidwainer» G., F., V.; Ger-
Tase Camerarins or Chamberlain^
A.,Ap.; Gerrasins CSiordewaner,

o

23

n

1238-9

William Joyner

John de Wylhale

John de Condres; Gonndris, G.
Gonndresse, F., V.

24

M

1239-40

Gerard Batte

Beginald de Bongey
Balph Ashwy or Eswy

26

19

1240-1

Beginald de Bnng^ ;
Bemon de Bengley,
F.

John de Gisors

Michael Tory; Timf, F.$ Omy, G.

26

»»

1241-8

The same

John y iel, son of John V ieU sen.
Thomas de Dnreeme or of Dnrfaam;
Dnryayne, G., F.

27

n

1242-3

••• ••• •••

Bobert Fitz John; JbA»,G.,F.,H., J.
Balph Ashewy

28

n

1243-4

Hngh Blnnt, goldsmith

Adam de Basyng; de Gisebnme, A.

29

9*

1244-5

Michael ToTy; Ibuy,
G,F.

Balph de Arcnbns, spicer
Nicholas Batte

30

n

1245-6

John de Gisors

Bobert Comhill

Adam Bentley; Benle, G.; Bewley»
F.; de Beyerlee, Ap.; de Benet-
lega,0.

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Tear.

Mayori,

81 Hen. UI. 1246-7 Piers fitz Aleyn

82

33

34

36

36

37

39

1247-8 Michael Totj agun;
Tony, G., F.

1248-9 Boger Fits Boger, 6.,
F.,H.,J. Bntaocord-
ing to A. Michael
ToTj again, and Fits
Boger and the two
next mayors each
held office one year
later than is here
stated.

1249-60 John Norman, G., F.,
H>, J*

1260-1 Adam Basyng

1261-2 F. and G. gire in this
year the mayor who
held office in the
thirty-scTenth year,
and so make the two
following mayors
also hold office iqrear
earlier.

1 262-3 John de Tolesano

1263-4 Nicholas Batte

1264-6 Bichard Hardel ; Ba-
dulfui Hardel, A*

Simon Fits Mary

Laurence Frowyke

Will. Vyel; Johi^ G., F.

Nicholas Bat

Nicholaos filins Jocey$ fiL Jocelini,

Ap.
Galfridns de Wintona

Balph Hardel

Jolm de Tolesane

Humphrey Basse ; Homfridns le

Ferre, A., O.; Hnmfridns dictos

Faber, Ap.
William Fits Bichard
Nicholas Bat
Laurence de Frowyk (Heisinaocn-

rately named in G. as a second

mayor instead of a second sheriff.)

William of Dnrham

Thomas de Wimbome

Bichard Picard; Meholoi, G.

John de Northampton

Balph Ashwy, G., F.; Willelmas

Bswy or Aswy, A., Ap.
Bobertns de Lintona, A., Ap.; Bob.

Belyngton, F.; Bylton, G.
These sherifi were reinoved, and

their plaeei supplied ^— -
Stephen de Oystergate; Stephen Doo,

G.
Henry Walemonde

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Tear.

Ma/yor$,

Sheriffs,

40 Hen. IIL 1255-6 Bichard Hardel

41 ,, 1256-7 The same

42

1257-8 The same

43 „ 1258-9

44 ,, 1259-60
46 „ 1260-1
46 „ 1261-2

47

48

49

1262-3 The game

1263-4 The same

1264-5

[The remoTed sheriffs of this jear are placed bj 6., V., and
F. in the thirty-eighth year, and ^ose who filled their
places in the thirty-ninth; after which the sheriffs are
assigned to their right yean by these chroniclers, by F.
till the forty-eighth year, and by G. to the end of the
reign.]

Matthew Bokerell; Michael, G.
John le Mynnr; Lymnonr, G.
Bichard Ewell

William Ashwy or Eswy, draper
Thomas fitz Thomas; fits Bichard,

G.,F.
Bobert Catylleyne; Catelyon or Cate-

leiger, F.
The last-named sheriff died, and
Matthew Bnkerel was pnt in his
place, bnt afterwards removed and
William Grapefige was made she-
riff.
John Adrian
Bobert de Comhill
Adam Browning
Henry de Coyentry; Riehardf F.
John of Northampton
Bichard Picard
Philip le Tayllur (or Cissor); Bcbert,

G.; Miehard,¥.
Bichard de Walbrook; Philip, ¥,
Osbert de Suffolk; Bobert, F.; Ober-

tos de Sowtheworke, G.
Bobert de Mnnpelers
Thomas de la Forde; Forthe, G.
Gregory Bokisle
[Fabyan gives as sheriffs for this year Osbert Wynter and
Philip Taylonr, the edition of 1559 giving also Bobert
Mnnpilers in the margin as a correction.]
The same Edward Blunt

Petms de Anngers; Armiger, G.;
filins Angeri, A.
[F. gives as sheriffs of this year those of the year preceding,
calling the first Thomas de la Fonrdeons.]

John de Gisors, pep-

perer
William Fitz Bichard

The same

Thomas Fitz Thomas

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249

Year,
50 Hen. lU. 1265-6

51

52

1266-7
1267-8

53

1268-9

54

1269-70

John de la Ljnde

John Walerand, WaleraTen^ or Wal-

roni
John Adrian
Luke de Batenconrt
Walter Herry; W. Heniy, P.
William de Dnrham; W. Dury-

seyne^ Q. (F. places these sheriffs

in the fifty-third year.)

William Fits Bichard

(Not mayor as in G.

but cnstos)
Alan Sonche, cnstos of

the City
The same; bat daring

the year he was re-
placed as castos by

Thomas de Eppe-

grare or Ippegraye,

and he by Stephen

de Eddeworthe.
Hngh Fits Otho,cnstoe

(Henry FitsThomas,

G.yWhich is certainly

inaccurate, as also

F., who calls him

Thomas, and H. and

J., which call him

Hngh Fits Thomas.)
John Adrian, draper Philip le Tailor; Joh%^ O., F.

(F. callfl him Tint- Walter le Poter; W. Plotte, G.; W.

ner.) Porter, F.

[The mayor and sheriffs for this and the remaining years of the

reign are placed a year later by Fabyan, who for this fifty-

loarth year giree Thomas fits Thomas as mayor, and William

Haddistok and Anketyll de AlTeme(de Anyeme) as sheriffs.]

The same sheriffs at first; afterwards
Robert de Comhiil
Thomas de Basings (F. places these
sheriffs in the fifty-second year.)

56 „

1270-1

The same

Gregory de Bokesle
Henry le Waleys

56 >.

1271-2

Sir Walter Henry,

JohndeBodele; BedeU,G.; Bedyll,F.

knight

Bichard de Paris

67 n

and

1 The same

John Home

1 Bdw. I

1272-3

Walter le Poter

2 „

1273-4

Henry Waleys

Nicholas, son of Geoffrey of Win-

> Chester

Henry de CoTcntry

3 .,

1274-5

Gregory Rokesley

Lake Batencnrt ; Patenconrt, F. ;

Batynconrt, G.
Henry Frowyke

4 „

1275-6

The same

John Home
Balph Bloant

CAMD.

800.

2k

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Year.

Majors.

SheHffg. \

6 Edw. I.

1276-7

The same

Robert Aras; Rob. de Bracy, F. |

Ralph Fererer

6

»

1277-8

The same

John, son of John Adrian
Walter Englysche; Water Leggleys.
Ap.; Walter le Comewaleis, O.

7

»

1278-9

The same

Robert Basing
Will, le Maserer

8

>f

1279-80

The same

Thomas Box
Ralph de la More

9

t*

1280-1

The same

WUl. Farindon
Nich. de Winchester

10

»»

1281-2

Henry Waleys

Will. Maserer

Ric de Chigwell; Roger, 0.

U

)>

1282-3

The same

Walter Blnnt; Ealph, G., F.
Ankyn Betnell; Anketillns de Beto-
TiUa, 0.

12

II

1283-4

The sam^

Jordan Goodeschepe
BCartinBoz

13

i»

1284-6

Gregory Rokesley, and
afterwards Sir John
Bryton

Stephen Cornhill
Rob. Rokesley

U

»

1286-6

Ralph Sandwich

Walter Blnnt; WUliam, F.
John Wade

16

»i

1286-7*

The same (Sir John
Bryton, F.)

Thomas GroB; Cros, F., G.
Will. Hanteyn

16

»f

1287-8 •

The same

Will, de Hereford
Thomas de Stanes

17

II

1288-9

The same

Will, de Betoyne; Byton, G.
John of Canterbury

18

}>

1289-90

The same

Fnlk of St. Edmnnd
Salomon Lancastre; Langforde, F.;
le Cntiller, 0., Ap.

19

II

1290-1

The same

Thomas Romayn
Wm. de Lyie

20

II

1291-2

Ralph Sandwich

Ralph Blnnt
Hamond Box

21

*f

1292-3

The same

Henry Belle; le Bole, 0.
Elysse or Ellas Rnsselle

* The sherifEs for the fifteenth and sixteenth years are transposed in our chitmicle.

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Year,

Mayors.

Sh^Hfft.

22Edw7

I. 1293-4

The same; John Bryt-

Bobert Bokesley

ton,G.

Martin Aumbre or Aumbresbury

23

f>

1294-5

Sir John Biytton

Henry Box
Bia Gloucester

24

ff

1295-6

The same

John Dunstable
Adam Halyngbeiy

26

ft

1296-7

The same

Thomas de Suffolk
Adam de Fullam

26

t$

1297-8

The same

John de Storteford
Will, de Storteford

27

if

1298-9

Heniy Waleys

Bichard de Befham; Bic. Botham,

G.; Biser le Mercer, Ap.
Thomas Sely; Geli, Ap.; Tely, G.

28

ff

1299-
1300

ElyBBosseU

John Armenters, draper
Heniy Fyngrey, fishmonger

29

>»

1300-1

The same

Luke Hareryng

Bic. Champeis or de Campes

30

»

1301-2

J<^ Blonnt

Bobert Caller

Peter de Bosham or Bosenho

31

ft

1302-3

The same

Simon de Paris, mercer
Hugh Pourte, fishmonger

32

»

1303-4

The same

WilLOombmartyn(orGombermartyn)
John Burford

33

w

1304-5

The same

John Lincoln, rintner
Boger Paris, mercer

34*

»»

1306-6

The same

WilLCosyn

Beynold Thundrylle; Doderell, F.;
Sounderle, Ap.

36*

}>

and

The same

Geoffrey atte Conduit

1 £dw.

U. 1306-7

Simon Bolete

[After this date^ I shall merely give names that seem pretty

well authenticated, omitting most of the yariations. Where

a corrapt form seems to occur in 6., I shall print it in

1

»>

1307-8

John Blonnt

Nich. Pygotte (Pycok) and Nigel
Drury

2

»

1308-9

Nicholas Faryngdon

William Basyng and John Butler

* The sheriffs for the thirty-f ourth and thirty-fifth yeara are transposed by our
chronicler.

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Tear.

Mayors,

Sheriffs,

3 Edw. II. 1309-10 TlioinM Bomayne

4
5

7
8

10

II
12

1310-11

1311-12

1312-13
1313-14
1314-16

Bichard Ro£Qiain

(^Bosham)
John GysoTB

Boger Palmer and James of 8t Ed-

mnnde
Sinnm Croppe and Piers Blackeney

The same (Xysort)
Nich. Faryngdcm
John Qysora

1317-18
1318-19

13 » 1319-20

14 ^ 1320-1

16 „ 1321-2

16 „ 1322-3

17 „ 1323-4

18 ^ 1324-6

19 „ 1826-6

20 ,t and i

1 Edw. m. 1326-7 !

2 „ 1327-8

3 „ 1328-9

4 „ 1329-30

Simon Merwoode and Bie. Wjl-

forde
John Lambin and Bk. Lntekyn
Adam Burton and Hngh Oajton
Stephen Habingdon and Hamond

Chikwell
Hamond Goodchepe and WilL Bed-

yng (So in G. and F.; but F. gires

in margin Bedington, which is also

tite smrname given in J., while H.

giyes Golith.)
Will. Gaston (or Ofivston) andBalpli

Palmer, Bnhner, or Balaonser
John Piyomre and WilL Fomeox
John Pnltenej and John Dalljng
[G. gires the officers of the fourteenth year for the twelfth ,
and repeats them in their proper place.]

1316-16 Steph. Habingdon

1316-17 John Wyngrate

The same
The same

Hamond Chikwell
Nich. Faringdon

Hamond Chikwell

The same

Nich. Faringdon

(Simon Fraances^F.J
Hamond Chikwell

Bic. Betayne
Thef

Hamond Chyckewell

John Grantham

Simon Swanne or
Swaynlond

Simon Abingdon and John Preston
Will. Prondeham and Beynold at the

Cbndnit
Bic. Constantyne and Bic. Hakeney

(Habeney, G.)
John Grantham and Boger (or

Bichard ?) of Ely
Adam Salisbury and John ol Oxen-
ford
Benet of Fnlham and John Caw*

ston
Gilbert Morden and John of Cotton
BicBoting (Botinger, G.) and Boger

Channceler
Harry Darcy and John Hawteyn

(Hadden, G.)
Simon Francis and Hany Comb-

martyn (Thonbyrmartyn, G.)
Bic. Lacer and Henry (Bic, G.)

Gysors

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Year,

Maywt,

Sheriffi,

6 £dw. lU. 1330-1

Jobn Ponntney

Bob. Ely and Thos. Harewold or

Harrewode

6

n

1331-2

The same

John Mokkynge and Andrew Aw-
brey

7

»

1332-3

John Preston

Nic. Pyke and John Hnsbond

8

M

1333-4

John Ponntney

John Hamond and WilL Hansard

9

>»

1334-6

Beynold at the Con-
dnit (Ralph Cotym-
ger,G.)

John Kingston (Kenton, G.) and
Walter Tnrke

10

n

1336-6

The same

Walter Morden and Bic Upton

11

n

1336-7

John Ponntney

Will. Brykelsworth and John North-
All

12

)»

1337-8

Harry Darcy

Walter Nele and Nich. Crane or
Grave (Grene, G.)

13

n

1338-9

The same

WilL of Ponntfireyt and Hngh Mar-
berer

U

»»

1339r40

Andrew Awbrey

Will. Thomey and Boger Forsham

16

»

1340-1

The same

Adam Lncas and Barth Mareys

16

»

1341-2

John Oxynford) after-
wards Simon Frann-

Bic Berkyng and John Bokyslee

17

»

1342-3

ces
Simon Frannces

John Lowkyn and Bic Kisling-
bury

18

f>

1343-4

John Sywarde and John Aylsham

19

»

1344-6

The same

Greoffrey Wychyngham and Thos.
Legge

20

w

1346-6

BicLacer

Edmund Hemnale and John Glon-.
cester

21

w

1346-7

Geoffrey Wichyngham

John Croydon and WilL Clopton

22

>»

1347-8

ThoB.Legge

Adam Bramson and Bic Basing-
stoke

23

»

1348-9

John Lorekin

Henry Picard and Simon Dolsell

24

»

1349-50

Walter (or William?)
Tm*e

Adam Bnry and Balph Lynne

25

>i

1360-1

Will Killingbnry

John Notto and WiU. Worcester

26

»

1351-2

Andrew Awbrey

John Wroth and Gilbert Steyn-
drop

27

»

1352-3

Adam Frannceys

John Peche and John Stodey

28

»

1353-4

The same

John (or WilUam?) Welde and John
LyteU

29

>»

1354-6

Thos.Legge

Will. Totenham and Bic Smerte

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Tear,

Mayort.

30 Edw. m. 1366-6

Simon Fraunceys

31

»

1366-7

Hany Picard

82

)>

1367-8

John Stodey

33

w

1368-9

John LoTekjn

34

n

1369-60

Simon Dolaell (Don-
f eld or Doffelde)

36

if

1360-1

John Wroth

36

«>

1361-2

John Pecche

37

n

1362-3

Steph. Canndish

38

t»

1363-4

John Notte

39

n

1364-5

Adam of Bory

40

n

1366-6

The same tai 28 Jan.;
afterwards John
Lorehyn

41

>«

1366-7

John Lovekyn

42

})

1367-8

Jas. Andrew

43

»i

1368-9

Simon Mordon

44

it

1369-70

John Chichester

46

a

1370-1

John Bemes

46

a

1371-2

The same

47

a

1372-3

John Pyell

48

i»

1373-4

Adam of Bnry

49

»>

1374-6

Will. Walworth

60

a

1376-6

John Warde

61

ft

1376-7

Adam Staple till 21
March ; afterwards
Nich. Brembre

Skiffs.

ThoB. Brandon* and Thos. Forster*
Ric. Nottingham and Thos. Dolsell
Stephen Canndish and Barth. Froste-

lyng
John Bemes and John Bnres
Simon Bedyngton (Badyngton, G.)

and John Chichester
John Deynes and Walter Bemey
Will. Holbeche and Jas. Tame
John of St. Alban's and Jas. An-
drew
Ric. Croydon and John Hyltofte
Simon Mordon and John of Met-

ford
John Brikylsworth ^d John Ireland

John Warde and Will. Dykman (so
F. and G.; bat H., J., and the
MS. of Fabyan used by Ellis give
Thos. At Lee or Otley for the
second.)
John Thorgold (Corgold, G.) and

Will. Dykeman
Adam Wymbjmgham (or Wymond*

ham) and Bob. Girdeler
John Fyell and Hngh Holbeche
Will. Walworth and Rob. Gayton
Rob. Hatfeld and Adam Staple
John Philpott and Nich. Brembre
John Aubrey and John Fyfhede
Ric. Lyons and Will. Wodhouse
John Hadley and Will. Newport
John of Northampton and Robert
Lannde

* F., J., and G. give the same Christian name to both the sheriffs of this year;
bat H. gives their names as Thos. Forster and Walter Brandon ; Arnold as Walter
Forster and Thos. Brandon.

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255

Year.

Mayori,

Sheriffs.

[62Bdw.ni.'

moh. Bremhre*^

Andrew Pyheman^ cmd Nieh. Twy-

ford--\

1 Ric. n.

1377-8

Nich. Brembre

Andrew Fykeman and Nich. Twy-
ford
John Boseham and Thos. Comwaleys

2

i>

1378-9

John Fhilpot

3

It

1379-80

John Hadley

John Heylysdone and Will. Baret

4

>»

1380-1

WilL Walworth

Walter Doget and Will. Knyght-

cote
John Bote and John Hende or Hjmde

5

tf

1381-2

John North&mpton

6

i»

1382-3

The same

Adam Bamme (Wamme, G.) and
John Sely

7

i>

1383-4

Nich. Biemhre

Simon Wynchecombe and John
More

8

n

1384-5

The flame

Nich. Ezton and John Erosh, Fresh,
or Frensh

9

ft

1385-6

The same

John Organ and John Chyrchman

10

tt

1386-7

Nich. Exton

Will. More and Will. Staundon

11

It

1387-8

The same

Will. Venour and Hugh Fastolf

12

tt

1388-9

Nich. Twyford

Adam Carlylle and Thos. Aostyn

13

tt

1389-90

Will. Venonr

John Walcote and John Loveye or
Loreney

U

tt

1390^1

Adam Bamme

John Frannceys and Thos. Vjnrent

15

tt

1391-2

John Hynde or Hende

Harry Yanner and John Schad-
worth

16

»»

1392-3

Will. Stawnden

Gilbert Mawfield and Thos. Nenton
or Newenton

17

tt

1393-4

John Hadley

Hie. Whittington and Drewe Baren-
tyne

18

tt

1394-6

John Erosh or Frensh

WilL Brampton and Thos. KnoUes

19

tt

1396-6

WiU. More

Roger Elys and Will. Sheringham

20

»

1396-7

Adam Bamme

Thos. Wylford and Will. Parker

21

tt

1397-8

Bic. Whittington

Will. Askham and John Woodcock

22

tt

1398-9

Drewe Barentyne

John Wade and John Warner

1 Hen, IV

. 1399-

Thoe. KnoUes

Will. Waldem and Will Hyde

1400

* It is yery strange that not only G., but F., J., and H. all gire a fifty-second year
to Edward HI., though he died in the fifty-first year of his reign. The confusion
doubtless arose from the election of a new mayor in the middle 6f the fifty-first
year ; and, as the mayor so elected was re-appointed in the first year of Richard I.,
the sherifiFs of that year are named along with him.

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ABPSNDIX,

Year. Ma/yor$»

2 Hen. IV. 1400-1 John Frannceya

3 „ 1401-2 John Schadworth

4

t>

1402-3

John Walcote

5

»

1403-4

Will. Askam

6

>»

1404-6

John Hjmde

7

n

1406-6

John Woodcock

8

ft

1406-7

Bic Whittington

9

n

1407-8

Will. Staundon

10

9>

1408-9

Drewe Barentyne

11

ft

1409-10

Bic. Marlowe

12

tt

1410-11

Thos. Enolles

13

tt

1411-12

Bob. Chicheley

14

and

, TT TT ,.,«,«) WULWaldem

1 Hen. V. 1412-13J

2 „ 1413-14 Will. Crowmer

3

tt

1414-16

ThoB. Fanconer

4

tt

1416-16

Nich. Wotton

6

tt

1416-17

Henry Barton

6

tt

1417-18

Bic. Merlowe

7

tt

1418-19

Will Sevenoke

8 „

9 „
10 „

1 Hen. VI.

2 „

3 „

1419-20 Bic. Whittington

1420-1
1421-2
1422-3
1423-4
1424-6

Will. Cambridge
Bob. Chicheley
Will Waldem
Will. Crowmer
John Mychell

Sheriffs.

1426-6 John Coventry

John Wakeley and Will. Ebofce,

Enote, or Emot* (John Obete, G.)
Will. Venonr and John Fremyngham

(William F. in G., which agrees

with Arnold.)
Bic. Merlowe and Bob. Clhicheley
Thos. Fanconer and Thoe. PoUe
WilL Lonthe and Steph. Spilman
WilL Oowmer and Harry Barton
Nich. Wotton and Geoffrey Broke
Henry Pomffet and Henry Halton
Will. Norton and Thos. Dnke
John Lane and WilL Chicheley
John Penn and Thos. Pyke
John Baynwell and WilL (or Walter)

Cotton

Balph Lobenham and Will. Sevenok

John Sutton and John Michell

(^NichoUf^G.)
John Michell and Thos. Aleyn
Aleyn Everarde and WilL C^ambridge
Bob. Whittington and John Coren-

try
Henry Bede and John Gedney
John Bryan, Balph Barton, and John

Pemeys (in place of Bryan, who

was drowned)
Bob. Whittington (or Whytyngham)

and John Bntler
John Bntler and John Welles
Bic. Gosselyn and WilL Weston
Will. Estfelde and Bob. Tattersall
Nich. James and Thos. Wandesford
Simon Seman and John By- the -

Water
WilL Milrede and John Brokley

* Ebote in J., which agrees with F. ; Enote in H. and V., which Nicholas has
misread Cnote ; Emot in Arnold.

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257

Year.
6 Hen. VI. 1426-7

6
7
8
9
10
11

12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25

27

29
30

31

32
33

1427-8

1428-9

1429-30

1430-1

1431-2

1432-3

1433-4

1434-6

1435-6

1436-7

1437-8

1438-9

1439-40

1440-1

1441-2

1442-3

1443-4

1444-5

1445-6

1446-7

1447-8
1448-9

Mayor$.

Joha(orWiU.)»Rayii-

well
John Gedney
Harry Barton
Will. Estfeld
Nich. Wotton
John Welles
John Pamejs (or Par-

reys?)
John Brokley
Bob. Otley
Harry Prowyke
John Mychell
Will. Estfeld
Steph. Browne
Robert Large
John Paddialey
Rob. Clopton
John Hatherley
Thoe. Catworth
Harry Prowyk
Simon Eyre
John Olney

John Gedney
Steph. Browne

1449-50 ThoB. Chalton

1450-1 Nich. Wyfold

1451-2 Will. Gregory

1452.3 Geoffrey (or Godfrey)

Feldyng

1453-4 John Norman

1454-5 Stephen Forater

Sherifft.
Bob.*' Arnold and John Higham

Henry Frowyk and Rob. Otley
Thos. Dafhons and John Abbot
Will. Rnsse and Ralph Holand
Walter Chertsey and Rob. Larg^
John Adyrley and Steph. Browne
John Olney and John Padysley

Thos. Chalton and John Lynge
Thos. Barnwell and Simon Eyre
Thos. Catworth and Rob. Clopton
Thos. Morestede and Will. Gregory
Will. Chapman and Will. Hales
Hngh Dyke and Nich. Yeo
Rob. Marchall and Philip Malpas
John Sutton and Will. Wetynhale
Will. Combe and Ric. Riche
Thos. Beaomont and Ric. Nordon
John Norman and Nich. Wyfold
Steph. Foster and Hngh Wyche
John Derby and Geoffrey Feldyng
Rob. Home and Geoffrey (or God-
frey) Boleyn
Will. Abraham and Thos. Scott
Will. {JohnyOt.) Cantlowe and Will.

Marowe
Thos. Canyng and Will. (•/<>*#, G.)

Hewlyn
Will Dere and John Middelton
Matthew Philip and CSiristopher

Water (or Warton)
Ric. Lee and Ric Alley

John Walden and Thoe. Coke
John Felde and Will. Tailor

* William in J. and in Arnold ; bnt John in F., G., and H.
^ Stowe and Orridge both give his Christian name as John, bnt the odier
authorities all call him Robert

2l

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Tear. Mayors,

Sheriffs,

34 Hen. VI. 1466-6

Will. Marowe

John Yong and Thos. Holgraye

(Oulgrave or Walgraye)

36

ft

1466-7

ThoB. Canynge

John Steward and Ralph Verney

36

ft

1467-8

OeofErey Boleyn

Will. Edward and Thos. Reyner

37

»>

1468-9

Thomas Scott

Ralph Josselyn and Ric. Nedeham

38

»>

1469-60

Wm. Hewlyn

John Plommer and John Stocker

39

«

1460-1

Ric.Lee

Ric.» Flemyng and John Lamhard

1 Edw. IV. 1461-2

Hugh Wiche

John Loke and George Ireland

2

it

1462-8

Tho8.Coke

Bartholomew James and Will. Hamp-
ton
Thos. Mnschamp and Rob. Basset

3

99

1463-4

Matt. Phaip

4

91

1464-6

Balph Josselyii

John Tate and John Stone

6

>»

1466-6

Ralph Vemey

Will. Constantino and Henry Waver

6

»

1466-7

John Yong

John Bromer and Henry Brice; and
on Brice's death John Stokton

7

f

1467-8

Thos. Holgraye (or
Owlegrave)

Humph. Hayford and Thos. Stal-
broke

8

»»

1468-9

Will. Tajlour

Simon (or Symkyn) Smyth and Will.
Haryot

9

*i

1469-70

Rie. Lee

Ric. Gardiner and Robert Drope

SURRENDER OF FALAISE CASTLE.
(See page 121, note \)

[These articles are not printed by Nicolas in the Chronicle of London, and as
already stated only the two first are printed in Rymer in the original French. I
therefore giye the whole text of the treaty as giyen in the English Chronicle, MS.
Cott. Jnl. B. I. f . 43. After the words *< first day of Feyerer " in this MS., it is
added] :^

Which day the capitayne and al they of the forseid castel desirid to
trete with our sorereigne lord the Kyng, which committid the trete and
appointment to be made with the worthie prynce the Dnke of Clarence ;
which trete and appointment was made in maner and forme as foloweth:—

Here folowith the trete and appointment of the accorde made the first
day of Fercrer, the yere of our Lord m' iiij® xvij, by me Oliver de Manny,
knyght, capitayne of the castel and doDgeon of Faloys, in my propre

* O. makes his christian name John, and Arnold makes it Robert; bnt it is
Richard in F. and J.

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person^ graantjng and bihotyng for me, and al tho of my compeigny and
garieon to the ful worthy prince the Doke of Clarence to yelden the xvj
day of this present moneth the castel and the dongeon of Faloys into
the handis of the right excellent Kyng of England, or into the handes
of [other on] * his by half therto committid that to receyve if it so ne be
or sone come that thaboreseid castel and dongeon of Faloys be nought
rescowed the forseid day withynne the houre of mydday ^ by bataile of
the dontful lord, persone or persones of the right excellent Kyng of
Fraunce or of the right dontful lord the Dolphyn his eldist sone, or by
therle of Armonak, Constable of Fraonce, and upon [that]^ the full
excellent Kyng of England to put or do put in the seid castel and
dongeon such kepyng that hym shal like.

Also it is tretid, accordid, and by hight by me thaboveseid Olyyer de
Manny that at the day of yeldyng of the seid castel and dongeon of
Faloys, I and al tho of my compeigny and garison, we shnl yeld us
presoners to thaboveseid right excellent Kyng of England, ont take
Gefirey of Chasteulx which shal abide and dwelle of al pointes, his body,
his lif, and al his goodes, to the grace and mercy of thaboveseid excellent
Kyng of England, he of his benigne grace to command upon the forseid
Geoffrey his good likyng.

Also it is set, tretid, and accordid and by hight by me aboveseid
Olyver de Mauney, that at the day of yeldyng up of the seid castel and
dongeon of Faloys, I and tho of my compeigny and garison shuld leven
in the forseid castel of Faloys all our horses, armures, staves, artilries,
without eny therof in any maner to here away or to distroie atwix this
tyme and the yeldyng of the seid castel and dongeon of Faloys, and J)*
we shal take hede to put al the forseid armnres, staves, and artilries sool
in an house of the forseid castel without eny thing therof to sparen.

Also it is tretid, accordid, and bihight by me aboveseid Oliver de
Mauney, in caas that rescowe as it is aboveseid be not done, that I and
al tho of my compeigny and garison at onre owne cost and expenses
shal do make ageyne and strengthe ageyne and reparaile the walles and
the diches of the castel and dongeon of Faloys, as wel without as withynne,

* Omitted in MS. The original has *' d'antre de par lay a ce commjs.*'
•» Orig. " de deux heure de mydye."
« Omitted in MS. Orig. ** but ce."

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and forto put the dongeon and castel in snch state, or as good, as it was
bifore that thaboveseid Eyng of England there leide his worshipful sege.

Also it is tretid, accordid, and bihight by me above Olyver de Manney
and al hem of my compeigny or garison, that at the day of the yeldyng
up of the seid castel and dongeon of Faloys we shnl yelden, take, and
delyyer to the handes of such as it shall like to thaboveseid right excel-
lent Kyng of England to committe, al the presoners, Englisshe subjectes
obeisauntz, and other holding the partie of England, p^ for the tyme be
presoned in the castel and dongeon of Faloys, without that any empech-
ment be put to the forseid presoners by any of her maisters at this tyme
or in tyme to come, be it by sommonyng, requyryng, or askyng in any
maner what it be, but fynally al tho of the seid garison that seien or
mowe seien hem han any right upon any of the condicion aboveseid, be
it by fait of preson or of plegge, the forseid folke of the garison she •
renouncen al the trouthes, feithes, bihestes, or othes that aboveseid
presoners mowe have done bicause of takyng or in any other condicion
or maner what so it be, without fraude or malengyne.

Also it is tretid, accordid, and grauntid by me aboyeseid Olyver de
Maxmey that at the yeldyng up of the castel and dongeon of Faloys ^
into the handes of hem committid by the right excellent Eyng of England
all th Englissh born, Walshe, Irisshe, and Oascoigne that bifore this
tyme han holden the partie of England, and nowe for this present tyme
ben withy nne the seid castel and dongeon, if eny be there.

Also it is tretid, accordid, and promittid by me Olyver de Mauney,
and hem of my compeigny and garison, that al the vitaile and artilries,
that is to sey, arblastes, bowes, arowes, quarelles,*^ poudres, gonnes, stanes,
and all other abilementes for the werre and defence of the seid castel and
dongeon of Faloys, be they alweies present in the forseid castel and
dongeon fro the first day of thentreting of this present trete and appoint-
ment, and fro the date of this present trete shal dwel and abide in the
forseid castel and dongeon of Falois without distruccion or wast in any

» shall.

b Thore is here an omission in the MS. corresponding to these words in the
original: "je delivrere et balder {Jbaillerax) hors de dit chastell et dongon de
Faloize."

« quarellet. The word is '< virtons " in the original French.

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maner, sauf onely of vitaile, wherof reasonably we ehal use and take our
soffisaonce as we were wont to done bifore this present composicion.

Also it is tretid and accordid and grauntid by me aboreseid Olyrer de
Maiiney, and al bem of my compeigny and garison, tbat in like wise of
artilries aboreseid we sbul not make ne sofi&e to be made eny broilyng,
brekyng, beryng awey, ne none otber distracdon in eny wise.

Also it is tretid, accordid, and bibight by me aboyeseid Olyrer de
Maoney, capitayne of the castel and dongeon of Falois, aswele for me
as for bem of my oompeigny and garison, that nnto tyme the forseid
castel and dongeon of Falois be ageyne strengtbid and reparailid and
ageyn pat in tbastate as it is aboveseid and declared, aswele without as
withynne, we ne non of ns shal not enarmen us ageyne thaboreseid
excellent Kyng of England, ne ageyne his partie that * no manor maun-
dementz that to us moowe be made ne for non other occasion what so it
be. And that bihete we knyghtes and squiers of the seid castel and
dongeon upon our feithes and honours, and al other of the garison bihoten
it upon the Holy Eyaungelies.

Also it is tretid, aocordid, and bihight unto thaboreseid ful high and
right myghtie prince Duke of Clarence by me aboveseid Olyyere de
Mauney, knyght and capitayne of the castel and dongeon of Faloys, ihut
upon this present trete and appointment I shal take and delyrer yiij
gentilmen, knyghtes, and squiers notables, which shuld welle and abide to
the commandment of thaboye right excellent Eyng of England as for
hostages, to that ende that the promyses aboyeseid be the better togider
holde for our partie.

Also it is tretid, accordid, and bihight by the fill high myghty prince
the Duke of Clarence, in the name and by commaundment of aboyeseid
right excellent Eyng of England, his soyereigne lord, that whan the
forseid castel and dongeon of Faloys, as wele withynne as without, be
made ageyne, refortifieid, and repareilid, and put ageyn in the point and
astate as it is aboye declarid, that I thaboyeseid Olyyer de Mauney,
knyght and capitayne of the seid castel and dongeon of Faloys, with al
tho of my compeigny and garison, shalbe dischargid and quiet of our
prison ayenst aboyeseid excellent Eyng of England, and that h&ik the
Eyng accordid to us of his benigne grace.

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Also it is to understand that the pleasance of thaboveseid right excellent
Eyng ne is nought that Geoffrey de Ghastiaolx shal use ne haye
benefice of the grace of tharticle precedent.

Also it is tretid, accordid, and bihight by the ful high and myghty
prince the Duke of Clarence, in the name and by the commaundment of
thabove seid right excellent Eyng of England, and of his grace
grauntid to me Olyyere de Mauney aboveseid, as wel as to hem of my
compeigny and garison, al our goodes whatsoeyer thei ben, beyng nowe
withyn the seid castel and dongeon of Faloys, out take our horses and
armures and other goodes aboye expressid and declarid.

Also it is tretid, accordid, and grauntid by me Olyyer de Mawney,
knyght aforseid, capitayne of the castel and dongeon of Faloys, that by
me, ne by hem of my compeigny and garison, ne other that ben with-
drawen hem into the seid castel, shalbe askid, required, borne, ne*
moeyid out of the forseid castel and dongeon, under colour of this present
appointment, none other goodes in no maner but onely oure propre
goodes.

Also it is tretid, accordid, and grauntid, aswele on that oo partie as
on that other, that hangyng the seid trete and appointment no maner of
werre shalbe made bitwene hem and thoste of thexcellent Kyng of
England and hem of the garison of the castel and dongeon of Faloys.

And for this present trete wel and truely to holde togidre haye 1, aboye
seid Olyyere de Mawney, knyght, capitayne of the castel and dongeon of
Faloys, for my partie to this present cedule of appointment set the seale
of my propre armes and ensealid it with my signet of myn hand for the
gretter approbacion of yerite and trouthe bifore the seid castel of Faloys,
the second day of the moneth and yere aboyeseid.

And this present appointment entierly to holde and fulfill on our
partie we Thomas, sone and brother of Eynges of England and of
Fraunce, Duke of Clarence, Erie of Aumarle, High Steward of England,
Chief Capitayne of the Vawarde, and Constable of thoste of my lord
the Kyng, haye done set to this cedule the seale of our armes, bifore the
forseid castel of Faloys the second day of the moneth and yere aboye-
seid.

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NOTES.

Page 97.

Line 17. — "And the Monday was the terment of the Lorde Moumbrey
at the Whytte Freerys in J)® cytte of London ys subbarbye."

Stowe also says in his account of Whitefriars : " There lay buried
also, in the middle of the new Choir, Sir John Mowbray, Earl of Notting-
ham, 1398." But according to all our Peerage Historians Thomas
Lord Mowbray, who was created Earl of Nottingham in 1383, did not
die in 1398, but was created Duke of Norfolk in 1397.

Page 163.

Line 8. — " And the same yere, the xxx day of Octobelr, the Erie of
Saulysbury was hurte." The chronicle in Vitell. A. xvi., which is here
deriyed from the same source as Gregory's, gives "the xxxj daye of
Octobre *' as the date. As the second of Norember is given as the date
of his death, this is in harmony with die statement in Grafton, that he
died two days after his woimd. But Monstrelet, who is followed by Hall,
states that he languished eight days ; and the inquisitions post mortem,
as cited by Dugdale, find that he died on the third of November. This
date, it may be added, is given in no fewer than twenty-three different
documents.

Line 14. — " And the secunde daye of Advente there were ij heretyks
objuryd." For " daye," of course, we should read " Sonday," which is
the reading in the Yitellius MS.

Lines 19, 20. — "And the xij evyn afbyr was i-broughte unto London,
and hadde hys masse at Poulys, and hys bonys buryde at Birsham."
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to Wycliffe, which is absurd. In the similar chronicle, VitelL A. xvi.
(at f. 87) the passage stands as follows :

" And on the xij*** even after the bonys of the Erie of Salisbury were
brought to London, and had his masse atte Powles ; and than 6B,ned
unto the priory of Birsham, and there y-buried with his auncestours the
which were fownders therof."

Even here, however, there is a strange inconsistency, for in the pre-
ceding paragraph it is said that he was interred at St. Paul's on the
first Sunday in Advent.

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INDEX.

AbergaTennj, Ric. Bean-
champ, Lord, 12
Abergayennj, Ladj, 140
Abingdon, 172, 208
Acres, 67

Acton, Sir Roger, 108
Aglnconrt, battle of, 111-2
Albemarle ("Arnndel" in
text), Dnke of (Edw.
Earlof Rutland), 97
Alblaster, Thos., 112
Alcock, John, LL D., af-
terwards Bishop of Ely,
229
Aldermanbnrj, 63
Aldgate, 164, 192
Aldnam, Will., 60
Alengon, 115
Alen9on, Connt of, slain

at Cressy, 82

Alenfon, John Dnke of,

slain at Aginconrt, 112

Alencon (Lannson), John

Dnke of, taken prisoner

at Vemenil, 167

Alexander IIL King of

Scotland, 70
Alfonso, King of Castile,

235
Allhallows the More, par-
son of, 229
Almada. See Vasqnjes
Almarle, Lord, 82
Almarre, Earl of, 157
Alnwick, castle of, 218,
219, 220, 227

Alphey, , 237

Amesbnry, Wilts, 209
Ambigensis, man of, 60
Amiens (Amyes), 166
Amiens (Amyas), bailly

of, 163
Anjon, 61, 84, 181
CAMD. 80C.

Anne of Bohemia, qneen

of Richard II., 53, 92,

94, 107
Antioch, patriarch of, 235
Antoyne, Monseignenr, 13
Antwerp, 80
Apilton, friar Will., 91
Arblastier ( Arblastre )

,187

Arblastier. iS^0 Alblaster
Arc,' Joan of. See Joan
Arflewe. See Harflenr
Argentan (Aigentyne), in

Normandy, 116, 149
Armagnac(Maners),Connt

of, 82, 180
Armagnacs, 151
Armenia, (Brmonye), 182
Amnlfns, Constantine, 63
Arras, Conncil of, 177
Arteys, bastard of Humph.

Dnke of Gloucester, 188
Amndel, Countess of, 140
Arundel, Richard Fitz-

alan, tenth Earl of (1375-

93), 92, 95-6
Amndel, Thos. Fitzalan,

eleventh Earl of (1399-

1415), 101, 106
Amndel, John Fitzalan,

twelfth Earl of (1415-

21), 139
Amndel, John Fitzalan,

thirteenth Earl of (1421-

34), 177
Amndel, Will. Fitzalan,

fifteenth Earl of (1437-

87), 211; his son and

heir, 182
Amndel, Sir Richard, 9,

105
Amndel, Thos., Bishop of

Ely (1374-88), Arch-
2 M

Axim^'dl'^onUnued
bishop of York n388-
96), Archbishop oi Can-
terbury (1396-1413), 89,
94, 97, 101
Ascheley, Sir John, 184,

220
Askham,Will., sheriff, 101
Athens, Dnke of, 85
Andeley, Jas., fifth lord
(1409-68), 139, 172, 204
Aumale, Comte d*. See

Almarle and Almarre
Austin Friars, 67, 96
Ayscough, Will., Bishop
of Sfuisbnry, murdered
(1460), 194
Axe, the, without Bishops-
gate, 108

Babington, Sir Will.,
Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas, (1425),
160

Babthorpe, Sir Rob. 16

Badby, John, 105

Baggot, Sir Will. 102

Bagle, Thofl. 172
Bakers and millers, 70
Baldock. See Boldete
Balliol, Edw., son of John,

78 84
Balowe (Barlowe?) Will.,

233
Bamborough Castle, 219,

220,227
Bamme, Adam, Mayor,

95
Bangor, Bishop of, (Will.

Barrow) 140
Bar, Dnke of, slain at

Aginconrt, 112
Bardolf, Lord, 105

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INDEX.

Barety Piers, 150
Baret, W. Sheriff, 91
Barham down (Beran-

downe), 61
Barlowe. See Balowe
Barons' Wars, the, 61, 68
Barm. See Varm
Bas, Henry, 66
Basle, Council of, 176-7,

182
Bastile, the, at Calais,

179
Bath and Wells, Bishops
of, Nic. Babbewith
(1408-24), 140. John
Stafford, (1426-43) 169
Bats, Parliament of, 160
Batte, Nic, Sheriff, de-
posed for perjnry, 66
Bayenx, 115
Bayle, John, 192, 194
Baynards' Castle, 60, 163
Beame. See Bohemia
Beanchamp. See Be-

champe
Beaofort, Henry, Bishop
of Winehester and Car-
dinal, 113 note, 139,
143, 157-164, 168, 172,
177, 188
Beaufort, Jane, daughter
of John, first Earl of
Somerset, 157
Beaufort, Margaret,
daughter of John, third
Earl of Somerset, 140
Beaug^, battle of, 142
Beaumont, Lord, 207, 216
Beauvais (Bevys), 172
Bechampe, Sir John, 93
Becket,St Thomas, 60, 62
Bedford, castle of, 62
Bedford, John Duke of.
Regent of France, 113,
114, 116, 139, 142-3,
150-4,156-7,160-1,168,
176-7. See also John,
Lord
Bedford, Anne^ Duchess
of, first wife of the pre-
ceding, 176
Bedford, Jaqueline or Ja-
quetta. Duchess of, se-
cond wife of the Regent,

Bedford — continued

afterwards married to

Richard Lord Rirers,

176, 206, 232
Belknap, Rob., justice, 93
Belle, in Flanders, 179
JBerandowne. SeeBtaham

down
Berger, le, a French shep-
herd named, 172
Bergevenny. See Aber-

gayenny
Berkeley Castle, 76, 78
Bemers, Sir Jas., 93
Berwick, 71, 76, 79, 84-6
BeuTTon (Boueme), St.

Jaques de, 161
Beyeney, Sir John, 108
Beyerley, Sir Simon of, 93
Beyys. See Beauyais
Billingsgate, 102
Birsham (Bisham), Berks,

163, 263
Bishop^ate, 106
Black Friars (or Friars

Preachers), 70, 107, 161
Blackheath, 89, 108, 190,
' 191
Blanche, Dame, daughter

of Henry Duke of Lan-
caster, 85
Blois, Earl of, 82
Bloreheath, battle of, 204
Blounte, Sir Thos., 102
Bohemia (Beame), 164
Bohemia, John King of,

82
Bois de Vincennes, 148
Bokerell, Walter, 63
Boldete, Rob. (Baldock,

chancellor to Edward

n.),77
Bolingbroke. See Bul-

broke
Bolton, a thief, 163
Bonebeaute, Ferrand of,

161
Bonvile, William, Lord,

(1449-61) 211, 212
Bordeaux (Burdowes), 66,

89, 175
Bordeaux, Archbishop of

(David de Montfer-

rand), 171

Boruffhe, Will. 93
Botiller, Sir John, prior

of Kilmainham, 12

Botton, , squire, 236

Boucicault (Bursegaunte ),

Marshal, taken atAgin-

court,112
Boueme. See Beuyron
Bourbon, Duke of, slain

at Poitiers, 85
Bourbon, Duke of, taken

prisoner at Agincourt,

112, 115, 163
Bourchier (Bowcer), Lord

(Sir Lewis Robs^ ob.

1431), 171
Bourchier (Bowcer), Hen.

Lord (1436-61) Earl of

Essex (1461-83), 181,

211, 212
Bourchier, Thos. Abp. of

Canterbury (1464-86),

231
Bouteiller, Guy le, Q^t

of Rouen, 13, 42, 122
Brabant, 80
Brabant, Duke of, slain

at Affincourt, 112
Bradschawe, Edmond,

226
Braybroke,* Rob., Bishop

of London, 98, 100
Brembly, Sir John, 204
Brembre, Nicholas, 90,

91-3
Brentwood, 64-6
Bretailles. See B^tellys
Breune (Browne) John le

164, 166
Brez4 (Brasylle), Pierre

de,220
Bridlington, Canon of,

74
Brienne, Earl of, 144,
Briga, Duke of, 113
Bristol, 77, 84, 101, 102,

168
Britanny, 82, 236
Britanny, Duke of, 163
Britanny, Arthur of, 161
Brokers, Sir Bernard,

102
Bromholm, the Cross of,

62

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Browne, J<^, 93, 108
Browne, Sir Nichol, 93
Bmce, Dayid, King of

Scots, 78
Bmges (Brjggp\ 89
Birak (S. Brienx in

Britanny) 105
Biyan, John, Sheriff, 122
Bryce, Harry, Sheriff, 233
Bryce, Will, 226
Biytellys, Lewis de, 236
Bachan (Bogham) Earl

of, 167
Buckingham, Henry Staf-
ford, Dnke of (1460-83)

216
Buckingham, Humphrey

Stafford,Dukeof , (1441-

60), 207
Buckingham (Anne),

Duchess of, wife of the

preceding, 207
Bnlbroke (Bolingbroke),

Roger, 183, 184
Burdete, Nich. 160
Burford upon the Wold,

316
Burgo, Hubert de, 64-6
Burgundy, 89, 237
Burgundy (Burgayne)

Anne of, 154
Burgundy, Duchess of,

181
Burgundy, Charles the

Bold, Duke of, 236, 237
Burgundy, John the Fear-
less, Dnke of, 16, 30-1,

40, 106, 114, 143, 161
Burgundy, Margaret of,

154
Burgundy, Philip the

Good, Duke of, 163, 171,

177-9,205,236 See&]ao

Chardais
Burgundy, bastard of, 236
Bnrsegaunte. See Bouci-

canlt
Bury St. Edmund's, 91 ;

Parliament at, 187, 188
Bury St Edmund's, Prior

of, 91
Bushy, Sir John, 96, 101
Butler. See Ormond
Butler, John, S26

Bydon, D.D., 233

Byschoppe, John, 214

C!ade, John, 194. 8es
Kent, Captain of

CJaen (Cane), 49, 82, 116,
189

Calah^ 51, 82, 96, 104,
111-12, 114, 161, 171,
173, 176, 178-9, 181,
190, 206, 206

Calais, Bastile at, 179

Cambridge, 179

Cambridge, Edmund of
Langley, Earl of, 88-9.
i^M York, Duke of

Cambridge, Richard of
Conisburgh, Earl of,
109, 139

Camois, Lord, 178

Canne, John, 74

Canterbury, 68, 84, 168,
171, 178, 180-1, 196

Canterbury, Archbishops
of. See Chichele^,
Henry; Sudbury, Si-
mon; Stafford, John;
Bourchier, Thos.

Canterbuy, St. Edmund,
of. See St Edmund

Carew, Thos., Baron of, 9

Carlisle, Edward Story,
Bishop of, 229

Carlisle, Roger Whelp-
dale, Bishop of, 140

Carmelite briars. See
Friars, White

Camarron, Edward of, 62

CassY, Sir John de, 236

Castle Baynard. SeeBnj'
nard's Castle

C!atalonia (Catalan), a
knight of, 184

Catherine of France,
Queen of Henry V., 53,
128, 138, 179-180; her
coronation, 138-141

Caudebec, 10

Caundische, Sir Simon
(should be John), chief
justice, 91

Celley, Sir Thos., 102

Cely, Sir Benet, 102

Chalons, Bishop of, slain
at Poitiers, 86

Chambyrlayne, Sir Roger,
188

Chambyrlayne, Sir Wil-
liam, 182

CSiancellerys, Philip of,
144. See Gamoches

Chancellor of England.
See Beaufort, Henry;
Nerill, Qeorge

Chanfew, Henry, 13

Chapman, John, 226

Charles, Dauphin, R^nt
of France, son of tfohn
II., afterwards Charles
v.. 86

Charles VI. of France, 110,
128, 138, 149

Charolals, Philip, Count
of, son of John Duke of
Burgundy, 114

Charter House, Prior of
the, 239

C3iateau Gaillard, 61, 68

Channler, John de, 160.
Chaynye. See Cheny

C9ieap, 93, 186, 192; the
Cross in, 112, 174, 183,
186 ; the Great Conduit,
Standard, &c. in. See
Conduit, &c.

Chef de Caux (Kytkawys),
in Normandy, 109

Cheny. See Chejne

Cherbourg, 11, 121, 189

Cheshire men, 98

Chester, 168. 204

Chester, We8t,Earldom of,
80

Chester, Bishop of. See
Corentry ana Lichfield

CSieyne, or Cheny, Sir
John, 96, 106, 160

Cheyne, Sir Will., Chief-
Justice of the King's
Bench (1425), 160

Chicheley, Henry, Arch-
bishop of Canterbury,
39, 139, 143, 159, 163,
166-6

Chichester, 84

Chichester, Bishop of. See
Moleyns, Adam

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Chri8t» a man pretending

to be, 63
Churches in London

robbed, 234
Cinqne Porto, barons of

the, 139, 168
Cirencester (SossetTr), 102
Cirone, Lord of, 160
Cisse, Gnichard of, 143-4
Clarence, Lionel Duke of,

88. See alio Lionel
Clarence, Thos. Duke of,

brother to Hemy V., 3,

6, 7, 23, 24, 109, 115,

121,139,142. SeeaUo

Thomas, Lord
Clarendon, Wilte, 199
Clarjngdone, Sir Boger,

103
Claydon, John, 108
Claykyn (Gne6clin},01iTer

de, 88
ClerkenweU, St. John's

Priory at, 91, 108, 167,

191
Clifford, Lady, << sister to

Harrv, the Eari of

Norttnmberland," 140
Clifford, John Lord (1392-

1422), 121, 139
Clifford, John Lord (1465-

61), 209, 210, 216-7
aifford,Thos. Lord (1422-

56), 198
Clifford, Bic, Bishop of

London, 140, 148
Clopton*s Place, Mile End,

192
Clydrowe, Bic, 103
Cobham, Eleanor. See

Gloucester, Dnchees of
Cobham, Lord. See Old-

casUe
Cobham, Lord E. (should

be Sir John), 95-6
Cock, the, in Cheap, 93
Cockefelde, Bob., 225
Coinage, 83, 106, 227
Coke, Sir Thos., accused

of treason, 236
Cold Herborowe, in Lon-
don, 161
Coleshill, Warw., 205
Cologne (Coleyne), 101

INDEX.

Cblogne (Colayne)> Bishop

of, 182
Combe, John, 209
Comets, 88, 177
Compiegne (Compayne),

171
Conduit at Comhill, 174
Conduit, the Great, in

Cheap, 186
Conduit, the Little, 93,

175, 186
Conisbnr^h, Bic of. See

Cambridge
Conqueror, Bob. 226
Constance, daughter of

Peter the Cruel of

Castile, married to John

of Gaunt, 89, 92
Constance, Council of , 112,

114, 116
Constantinople, Emperor

of. See PaliBologus
Cordwainers, 238
Corffe Castle, 209
Com, scarcity of, 83, 181
Comhill, 186
Comhill, Conduit at, 174
Comhill, St Michael's,

184
ComhiU, St Peter's, par-
son of, 233
Comwall, Duchy of, 80
Comwall, Earl ol See

Eltham, Sir John of
Comwall, Sir John, 7, 106>

116, 121, 183
Counter, 115
Courtney, ,Chancellor

of Oxford, 106
Coventry, 97, 158, 172,

203, 205, 206, 209
Coventry, prior of, 57
Coventry and Lichfield

(or Chester) , WiU. Hey-

worth. Bishop of, 165
Creechurch (Crychyrche),

184
Cressy, Battle of, 82
Cromwell, Balph, Lord

(1418-56), 172
Crowemere, Will. 192,

193
Cratched Friars, 74
Cyprus, Cardinal of, 177

Dalalaund, Thos. 236
Dalyngryege, Sir Edw. 9S
Damekt, Hugh, parson of

St. Peter's, Comhill,

233, 235
Dankester. /9^Doncaster
Dannoy (Damoy), John,

143-4, 147-8
Darcy, Lord, 141
Daune, Sir John, 204, 217
Dauphin. See Charles
Danson, Will, 225
David n. of Scotland,

78, 82, 85
Delalamnd. See Dalar

laund
Delaware, Lord, 141
Denham (or Dynham),

Sir John, 206
Denia (Dema), Earl of, 88
Derby, Earl of. See

Henry IV.
Derham. See Durham
Devereux (Deveroee), Sir

Walter, 207
Devises (the Vyse), ITilts,

187
Devonshire, 205
Devonshire, Earl of, 209,

216,217
Domerville, Bem., 143
Domfront (Dennifrount),

7,10
Doncaster (Dankester),

227
Dorset, Earl of, (Edm.

Beaufort), 181. See

alio Mortain
Dorset (should be Dublin),

Marquis of, 93
Douglas, Earl, 103, 157
Dover, 138, 190
Downe, John, 171
Dry Summer, the, 83
Dublin (Develyn), 102
Dublin, Bishop of, 113
Dublin (Develyn), Mar-
quis of, 92
Dunfermline, 78
Dunkirk, 92
Dunstable, 81, 212
Dunstanborough Castle,

219,227
DuraSy John» 150

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Durham (Derham), 219,

223
Durham, Bishop of, ^Th.

Langley), 140, 168
Dymmoke, Sir Philip, 168
Dynham. iSl?^Deimam

Earthquake, 92

Eastcheap, 106

Eberalle, Dr. Thos., 235

Eccleshall (Egyllyssale),
Staff. 204

EdinbTirgh^2

Edington, Wilts, 194

Edward I., 62; birth of,
66; reign of, 69-73

Edward U., 62; as Prince,
72; reign of, 73-77;
death of, 78

Edward m., 62 ; birth of
74 ; reign of 77-90

Edward lY., 64 ; as Earl
of March, 206,211,216;
his accession, 216; his
reign, 216-39; his mar-
riage, 226; entertained
by the Lord Mayor, 232

Edward the Black Prince,
78, 80, 86, 88, 90

Edward Prince of Wales,
son of Henry VL, 209,
212, 214, 216-17

Edyrbeke, John, 226

Egitemont, Lord, 202, 207;

Eleanor, Qneen of Henry
m. 66

Elizabeth, Qneen of Ed-
ward rV., 226, 227, 232

Eltham, 108, 160, 163, 171

Eltham, Sir John of. Earl
of CJomwall, brother of
Edw. ni., 80

Ely, Bishop of, his place
m Holbom, 114

Ennowde. See Hainanlt

Erpingham, Sir Thomas,
109

Essex, insurrection in, 91

Estefylde, Will., 182

EstoutcTille (Tutyyle),the
Lord, 109

En, Count of, slain at
Poitiers, 82, 86

En, Count of, taken at

Agincourt, 112
En, Earl of (Henry Bour-

chier, afterwards Earl

of Essex), 183
Eyesham, battle of, 68
Exeter; 168
Exeter, Bishops of, Ed-

mund Lacy (1420-66),

140; Geo. Neyill (1466-

65), 212
Exeter, Duke of, (ThdB.

Beaufort, 1416-26), 2, 3,

7, 8, 23, 42-3, 109, 116,

148
Exeter, Duke of (Sir John

HoUand, 1397-1401),

97, 101
Exeter, Duke of (John

Holland, 1443-6). 188
Exeter, Duke of (Henry

HoUand, 1446-73), 196,

210, 216
Eyre, Simon, Mayor of

London, 187

Falaise (Faleys), 116, 149;

capitation of, 117-121 ;

surrender of the castle,

268-262
Falconbridge (Faucon-

biygge), Lord, 216
Fastou, Sir John, 150,

163
Fayette, Sir Gilbert Moun-

strewys. Lord of. 117
Fenwyke, Thos., 225

Ferby, , clerk, 102

Ferrara, Count de, 235
Ferrers of diartley, Ed-
mund Lord, 10
Ferrers of Groby, Will.

Lord (1387-1444), 141
Ferrers of Groby, John

Grey Lord (1467-61),

217, 226
Feyersham, 60
Fife, Earl of, 103
Fitz - Hugh ( Fehewe ),

Henry Lord, 8, 34, 109,

116, 121-2, 141
Fitz-Hngh, Rob., Bishop

of London, 177

Fitz-Walter (Fewater),

Walter Lord (1428-32),

1748, 175
Fitz-Walter, John Bat-

cliffe. Lord (ob. 1461),

216
Flanders, 84, 89, 104, 114,

179
Flanders, Earl of, 82
Fleet Street, 91, 94, 171,

228, 229
Flemings, 89, 91, 92, 168,

237, 238
Folthorp, Rob. (should be

Roger), Justice, 93
Fonteyrand (Synt Eyer?

ard),60,68
Foreste, Lord of the, 163
Fortescne, Sir John (Lord

Foschewe), 217
Fonnteneye, Sir Piers of,

160
France, 171-2, 218 ; a

bishop of, 168
France, Admiral of, 92
France, Ck>nstable of,

slain at Aeincourt, 112
France, Marshal of, taken

at Agincourt, 112
Franciscans. See Friars,

Grey
Frank, John, master of

the rolls, 181
Frederic III.,Emperor,235
Friar Austin, a, 204
Friar, a Black, 230
Friar, a Grey, 229
Friars,Black/)r Preachers,

69,196
Friars, Grey, or Minors,

(Franciscans), 63, 167,

194
Friars, White, or Carmel-
ites, 62, 228, 229, 231.

See alio White Friars
Frosche, Will., 143
Fnmess (Fomeysse) Fells,

in Lancashire, 232
Fumiyal, Lord, 141
Fyndome, Sir Thos.,

224, 226
Fynes, Sir Jas., Lord Say,

Treasurer of England,

192

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INDEX.

Fysche, Sir Edmnnd, 225
Fyecher, Jas., 201

Gam, Darid, 112

Gamoches (Gamceljs),
Philip, 148, 147

Gamolle (or Ganrille?)^
Lord of, 117

Gardjner, John, 180

Garter, Knights of the, 81

Gasoony, 88

Gascony and Goienne,
yinta^ of, 178

Gaste, Sir Lewis, 143-4,
147

Ganconrt, the Lord, 109

Gannt, John of, Earl of
Richmond (1342), Earl
of Lancaster (1362), 85,
88, 89, 92, 96, 101

Gareston ( Oayyrston ),
Piers, 76

Gaylard (CHiatean Gail-
lard), 51

Gayton, Geron of, 66

Genoa ( Jene), carracks of,
104, 114, 116

Glasdale, , squire, 164

Glendower, Owen, 102

Gloucester, 51, 52, 62

Gloucester, Dnchess of
(Eleanor Gobham), 183,
184

Gloucester, Humphrey
Duke of, 11, 12, 16, 23,
25,33,39,114,121,139,
158, 159, 160, 168, 176,
179, 188, 189, 193, 198

Gloucester, Richard de
Clare, Earl of, 68

Gloucester, Thomas of
Woodstock, Duke of, 92,
95, 104

Gloucester, Thomas Lord
Spencer, Earl of, 97

Gooche, Joan, 186

Gosse, Thoe., 225

Gough, Matthew, 193

Grame, Robert, 180

Grand Jaques, 14, 41

Grasse, , 143

Grayelines, 114

Grayesond, 91

Grayille, Sir John, 150

Gray, Lord, 121

Gray, Lord, of Ruthyen

(Ryffyn), 139
Gray, Lord, of Wilton, 141
Gray, John, 93
Gray, Sir John, 9
Gray, Sir Ralph, 220, 227
Gray, Sir Thomas, 109
Greenwich, 190, 191
Grene, Sir John, 101
Grey, Eliz., widow of Sir

John, married to Ed-
ward IV., 226
Grey Friars. See Friars
Greystock, Ralph Lord

(1435-85), 210
Groysyne. See Guesene
Grysly, Sir John, 204
Guernsey, 205
Guesdin, Dn. See CTlay-

kjm
Guesene, Gueaseuy, or

Groysyne, Rob. de, 143-

4,147
Guienne, 78, 82, 84, 206
Guildhall, 101, 184, 192,

193
Gylott, John, yintner, 106

Habyngdon. See Abmg-
don

Hainault (Ennowde), in-
yaded, 158

Hainault, Jaqueline of.
See Holland, Duchess of

Hainault, Earl of, 76, 78

Hainault, Seneschal, of,
105, 112

Haldon, Thomas, D.D.,
228-230

Hales, Sir Robert, prior
of St. John's, 91

Halydon Hill, battle of,
103. N.B. This is an
error, the battle really
intended being that of
Homildon Hill, although
it is mentioned in the
same page by its right
name.

Hamdon, Sir Thos., 204

Hammys, Sir Thos. 217

Hampshire, 186

Hampton. See South-
hampton

Harberde, Thos. 188

Harcourt, Lord of, 82

Hardon, Sir Ric. 2u4

Harfleur (Arflewe, or Har-
flete),12,149,178; si^
of, 109-111; lost by the
English, 189

Harington, Lord, 7, 141

Harington, Sir WilL, 7,
116, 121

Harlech (Hardelowe) Cas-
tle, in Wales, 209, 237

Harold, King, 49

"Haryestof Heads,'M97

Haryndon, Sir Thomas,
204,210

Haryngdon, Lord (Wil-
liam Bonyille, 1460),
210

Hastings, Sir Thos. Hoc
Lord, 196

Haukyns, John, 237

Hayerfordwest (Herforde-
este), 211

Havering atte Bower,
Essex, 180

Hawkwood, Sir John, 88

Hawley, Rob., 91

Hayforde, Humphrey,
sheriff, impeachea, 237

Haywardyn, a thief, 193

Henowde. See Hainault

Henry I., 60

Henry II., 60

Henry m., 51 ; birth of,
60; reign of 62-69

Henry IV., 53, 180 ; as
Earl of Derby, 92, 96 ;
made Duke of Hereford,
97; as Duke of Lancas-
ter, 101; reign of, 102-
107

Henry V., 1, 2, 6, 21, 28-
33,41,53,170; knighted
by Richard II. in Ire-
land, 101 ; as Prince of
Wales, 103, 105; reign
of, 107-148; death of,
148

Heniy VI., 54; birth of,
142; reign of, 149-215;

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Henry VI. — continued
coronation of, 166-170;
at the first battle of St.
Alban's, 198; his illness
atClarendon,ld9; makes
peace between the two
parties at Ck>Tentx7, 2u3;
erants the saccession to
the Grown to the Dnke
of York, 208 ; at the
second battle of St.
Alban's, 211-12, 214;
defeated at Towton, flies
to Scotland, 217; lays
sie^ to Norham, 220;
retires again to Scot-
land, 220-1 ; is taken in
Lancashire, 232

Henry of Trastamara,
King of Castile, 88

Herbert, Will. Lord, of
Wales, 237

Hereford, 77

Hereford, Dnke of. See
Henry IV.

Herflete. See Harflenr

Herljon, John, 63

Hexham, Battle of, 224

Heyworth, Will., Bishop
of CoYentry and Lich-
field, 166

Highbury, 91

Hody, Alex., 209

Hoggys (la Hogne in
Normandy), 106

Holland, 114

Holland, Jaqneline Duch-
ess of, 142-3, 168

Holland, William Duke
of, 114

Holland, Sir John(created
Earl of Huntingdon
1387, Duke of Exeter,
1387-9), 97, 101, 102

Holland, John (second
Earl of Huntingdon,
1417, created Duke of
Exeter, 1443), 9, 10,
11, 17, 22, 116, 176-7,
182

Holland, Henry, son and
heir of the preceding,
Duke of Exeter (1446-
73), 182

Holland, Thos., third

Earl of Kent, created

Duke of Surrey (1397),

97, 102
Holte, John, Justice, 93
Holy Island, 219
Holy Land, 67
Homildon (Humbyldon)

Hill, Battle of, 103
Hongerford. iSS^ Hunger-
ford
Hoo, Sir Thos., Lord

Hastings, 196
Hooey, Sir Thos., 226
Home, Bob., 192
Horse Down (Horsley-

down), 186, 238
Hull, 84, 210
Humbyldon Hill. See

Homildon Hill
Hundenn, Bic, 171
Hungary, heretics of, 162
Hungerford, Sir Walter,

Steward to Henry V.

34, 121-2
Hungerford, Walter Lord

(1426-49), 181; son of

160
Hungerford, Bob. Lord

(1469-64), 219,220, 224,

226
Hunte, Thos., 226
Hunte, Walter, 226
Huntingdon, (Jountess of,

139, 161
Huntingdon, Earl of. See

Hollimd, Sir John and

John

Indulgence, plenary, 197
Interdict, Papal, 69, 60
Ireland, 93, 189, 206,

208
Ireland, Duke of, 93. See

Oxford, Earl of
Isabel of Bavaria, Queen

of (Charles VI. of France,

128, 138
Isabella of France, Queen

of Edward n., 74, 76
Isabella of France, second

Queen of Bichard IL,

63,96

lye. Will., of Wykeham's
(College, Winchester,
afterwards master of
Whittington's College,
London, 203, 228, 2»0-
232, 236

Jakys, Black, 226

James I. of Scotland, 138-
9, 167, 171; slain, 180

Jaques, Grand, 14, 41

Jene. See Genoa

Jenico d'Artas, 9

Jews, 68, 70, 72

Joan,sister to Edward m.,
78

Joan of Arc (the "Pu-
celle'n, 164, 171-2

Joan of Nayarre, Duchess
of Britanny, Qaeea of
HenJ7lV.,103,113,180

John, King of England,
61, 69-61

John n.. King of France,
84,86

John, Lord, son of Henry
IV., 106. i&^ also Bed-
ford, John Duke of

John, Lewis, 182

Jone, Bob. le, 163

June, Sir John, Chief
Baron of the Exchequer,
160

Katharine. jS!?^ Catherine

Kemp, John, Bishop of
Tendon (1421-6), Arch-
bishop of York (1426-
62), Archbishop of Can-
terbury (1462-4), Cardi-
nal, 148, 163, 181, 193

Kennington, 182

Kent, 197, 206 ; insurrec-
tions in, 91, 181, 190

Kent, Countess of (Joan,
widow of Thomas, third
earl), 139

Kent, Earl of (Edmund of
Woodstock), 78

Kent, Thomas Holland,
third Earl of, created
Duke of Surrey, 97

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INDEX.

Kent, Edmund Holland,

fonith Earl of, 104, 105
Kent, Captain of, 190-4
Keryel, Sir Thomas, 212
Khan, the Great (Knblai

Khan), of Tartary, 69
Kilmainham, priors of ;

Sir John BotiUer, 12;

Thomas Fitzgerald, 187
King's Bench prison, 193,

194
Kingston-on-Thames, 96

Kirkeby, , 91

Knights of the Bath, 186
Knolles, Sir Robert, 104
Kylburge (?), castle of, 79
Kytkawys. See Chef de

Canx

Lambert of Le Legys, 63
Lamberte, Dame Joan, 65
Lambeth (Lambeffe), 229
Lancashire, 208, 232
Lancaster, Dame Blanche,

Dnchess of, 88
Lancaster, Dnke of. See

Gaunt, John of
Lancaster, Henry Dnke of,

84
Lancaster, Thomas Earl

of, 52, 76
Langdon, John, Bishop of

Rochester, 165, 177-
Langham, Simon, Arch-
bishop of Canterbuiy

and Cardinal, 90
Langley, 53
Latimer, Geo. Neyill,

Lord (1432-69), 210
Lannde, Prior oi, 103
Lannde, Rob., 91
Lannoy, Oliyer de, 151
Lannson. See Alen9on
Leadenhhall, 186
Leche, Sir Philip, 9
Legate from the Pope,

235
Leicester, 108, 160, 189,

190
Lesnes Castle, 184
Lewes, Battle of, 68
Liberties of the City, 64, 7 7
Lincoln, 84

Lincoln, Bishop of (Ric
Flemyng), 140

Lionel, Sir, son of Ed-
ward III. 80. See
Clarence, Dnke of

Llewelyn, Prince of
Wales, 69-71

Lokton, John, Justice, 93

Lollards, 108

Lombards, 161, 182, 199

Lombardy, 88

London, passim. The
City in Ul favour with
with Richard II.. 98 ;
its petition to him, 98-
101. Henry VI. rides
through, 171

London Bridge, 60, 61, 95,
103,105,159,162-3,172
-8,179,181,186,187,188,

• 193, 194, 197, 218, 227

London House (Bishop
of London's Palace),
158, 208

London, Tower of. See
Tower

London, walls of, 63

London, Bishops of ; Ric.
Clifford (1407-21), 140;
Wm. Grey (1426-31),
167; Thos. Kemp
(1448-89), 230, 231, 233

London, mayor and alder-
men of, 168

Longneyille, Earl of, 85

Lorraine, Duke of, 82

Louis, son of Philip Au-
gustus, King of France
(afterwards Louis

Vni.), 61, 62

Louis, Dauphin, son of
Charles VI., 110

Louis XI. of France sends
ambassadors to Edward
IV., 235

Louyain, in Brabant, 93

Louyers (Loyers), 122

Loyell, Lord, 217

Lucy, Sir Will., 207

Ludgate, 102, 161

Ludlow, 206, 207

Lnmney, Sir Ralph, 102

Lupe, Peron de, 143, 144.
148

Lutterworth, Leic, 163

Lydgate, John, his yerses
on the Kings of Eng-
land, 49-54

Lyndesay, Dayid of, 93

Lynn, 180

Lyonys, Ric, 91

Maidstone, 181
Malette, Philip, 143
Malpas, Cheshire, 209
Malpas, Philh), 191, 192
Mannynge, Thos., LL.B.,

Dean of Windsor, 233
March, Anne Countess of,

140
March, Edmund Morti-
mer, Earl of, 114, 121,
139, 158
March, Edward, Earl of.

See Edward IV.
Marche, Will., 65
Marchelle, Sir Lewis, 150
Mare, Bernard de la, 226
Margaret of Anjou, Queen
of Henry VI., 185, 186,
204, 208, 209, 212, 217,
218, 220, 221; her party,
204, 210, 212-16
Margaret, sister to Ed-
ward IV., married to
Charles the Bold, Duke
of Burgundy, 237
Marr, Earl of, 157
Marshal, Earl. See Mow-
bray
Marshalsea prison, 193
Martin V., Pope, 116, 172
Mary of Gueldres, l^een

of Scots, 220
Massam, Nich. 225
Mauley, Ralph Bigot,

Lord, 217
Mautrayers, John, 13

Mawdleyn, , clerk,

102
Mawley, Lady, 140
Mayne, Thos., 193
Mayor of London, to .bo
presented to the Barons
of the Exchequer, 67;
his precedence yindi-
cated 222-3

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273

Majors of London, begun,

69
Mayors and Sheriff. The
names of these officers
as contained in Gre-
gory's Chronicle are
not included in this
Index except when any
of them happens to be
mentioned by name in
the text of the record.
But a chronological list
of them will be fonnd
in the Appendix, pp.
241-258
Meanx en Brie (Mewys),
142-3, 149; capitula-
tion of, 143-8; recoyered
by the French, 182
Medway, river, 104
Melun sur Seine (Myleu),

138
Menard, Quentin, 154, 156
Merlowe, Bic. Mayor, 107
Merton, 1 60 ; statute of, 65
Merrille, Beniard de, 143,

note
Menlan(Ponnce Mylanke),
149; capitulation of,
160-3
Meulhou. See Molene
Mewys Colman, ship

called, 92
Middlehiun, Yorkshire,

225
Milan, Earl of, his daugh-
ter, 104
Milbrook, Hanto, 201
MUe End, 95, 192
Millers and Bakers, 70
Minor Friars. See Friars
Molene (Meulhou?), Sir

WilL, 116
Moleyns, Adam de, Bishop
of C3iichester, Lord
. PrivySeal, 187, 189
Molines, Lord, 164
Molyners, Sir Bob., 204
Mombray. See Mowbray
Montague, John Nerill,
Lord (1461-71), 220,
223, 224, 226, 227;
created Earl of North-
umberland, 227
CAMD. 80C.

Montiyillicrs (Mustarde
Vylers), in Normandy,
189

Montferrand, Dayid de.
Archbishop of Bor-
deaux, 171

Montgomery, John, 218

Moraunte, , fish-
monger, 102

Moray (Moryk), John
Dunbar, Earl of, 93

Moray, John Bandolph,
third Earl of, 80

More, the Archbishop of
York's place in Hert-
fordshire, 236

Morgan, Philip, Bishop
of Worcester, 167

Mortain, Edmund Beau-
fort, Earl of, 172, 178,
181 ; created Earl of
Dorset, 181

Mortain, Edward Holland,
Earl of, 8

Mortimer, John, name
assumed by Jack Cade,
193

Mortimer, Sir John, 157,
note

Mortimer, Sir Boger, 78,
79

Mortimer, Sir Thomas,
96, 167

Mortimer's Cross, Battle
of, 211

Morton, Dr., afterwards
Bishop of Ely and
Archbishop of Canter-
bury, 214, 218

Mote de Tylly, Lord of,
150

Motte, John de la, 143

Mounstrewys. See Fay-
ette

Mountayne, Lord of, 150

Mowbray, Catherine,
Ck)untess Marshal (wife
of Thos. Earl of Not-
tingham), 139

Mowbray, John, Earl
Marshal, 7, 23, 139;
created (second) Duke
of Norfolk, 157, 163,
168

2n

Mowbray, John, son of the
preceding, afterwards
third Duke of Norfolk,
160. See Norfolk.

Mowbray, Thos. Earl of
Nottingham and Earl
Marshal (1383-97),
Dnkeof Norfolk (1397-
1413), 92, 93, 95, 97

Mowbray (Mombray),
Lord (ob. 1397 ?), 97

Mowbray, Thos., Lord
beheaded (1405), 104

Mowbray, Marg.,daughter
of Thos., first Duke of
Norfolk, 140

Murrain of beasts, 162

Mustarde Vylers. See
Monti yilliers

Myleu. See Melun

Mylton, , Squire, 188

Mylverton, John, D.D.,
proyincial of the White
Friars, 229, 230

Mynstyrwode, Sir John,
90

Myrayle, John of, 150

Myrfyn, Bob. 225

Najara, battle of, 88
Naples, King of (Fer-
dinand I.), 235

Nedam, , yeoman,

188
Nete, Will., 186
Neyill, Alex , Archbishop
of York, (" Canterbury '
in text), 89, 93
Nevill, Eliz. Lady, 140
Neyill, Geo., Bishop of
Exeter (1466-66); Arch-
bishop of York (1466-
76); Lord Chancellor
(1460-67), 212, 223, 2.30,
236
Neyill, Sir Humphrey, 224
Neyill, John, Lord (ob.

1461), 210, 216, 217
Neyill, Sir John, Lord

Neyill, 9, 140
Nevill, Sir John, 204
Neyill,Balph,Lord,created
Earl of Westmorland, 97

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INDEX.

Nevill, Sir Richard, made
Earl of Salisbtuy, 163;
wife of, 140-1

Nerill, Sir Tboe. 204

Newcastle-opon-Tyne, 79,
217, 221, 223-26

New Forest, 199

Newgate, 77, 102, 116,
156-7, 192, 194, 202,
235

Nicholas of the Tower,
the, ship, 190

Nobles (coins), 106

Norfolk, Countess of
(MargaretPlantagenet),
created Dacbess of, 97

Norfolk, first and second
Dukes of. 6Sp0 Mowbray

Norfolk, John Mowbray,
third Dnke of (1432-61),
181,195,211,212, 216.
See alio Mowbray

Norham Castle, 220, 224

Normandy, 51, 68, 59, 82,
84, 108, 115, 138, 148,
162, 189; chief bntler
of, 150; chamberlain
of, 196

Northampton, 68, 75, 160,
221-2; battle of, 204,
206, 207, 209

Northamptonshire, 195

Northewode, John, 89

Northnmberland, 218, 219

Northmnberland,Connte88
of, 140

Northnmberland, Henry
Percy, first Earl of
(1377-1408), 101, 105

Northnmberland, Henry
Percy, second Earl of
(1414-56), 140-1,179,198

Northnmberland, Henry
Percy, third Earl of,
(1455-61) 210, 216-7

Northnmberland, Earl of.
See Montagne, Lord

Norwich, bishops of: Hen-
ry Spencer, (1370-1406),
92 ; John Wakering
(1416-25), 140; WiUiam
Alnewick (1426-36),
172 ; Thomas Brown
(1436-45), 181

Norwich, Mayor of, 180
Nottingham, 58, 78, 93
Nottingham, Earl of . See
Mowbray, Thomas

Oldcastle, Sir John, Lord
Cobham, 106-8, 116

Orleans, siege of, 162-4

Orleans, Charles Duke of,
taken prisoner at Agin-
conrt, 112, 181, 183

Orleans, Louis Duke of,
106

Orleans, Bastard of, 182

Ormond, Joan, Countess
of (ob. 1430), 171

Ormond, James Butler,
fourth Earl of (H05-
52), 7, 183, 186

Ormond rUrmonnde), Sir
James JButler, son and
heir to the fourth Earl
of, 160; fifth Earl (1452-
61), 198. iS^d Wiltshire
and Ormond

Oxford, 63, 172, 176, 183,
215

Oxford, Countess of, 140

Oxford, Robert de Vere,
ninth Earl of, nuide
Marquis of Dublin
(1386), 92, 93

Oxford, Aubrey de Vere,
tentli Earl of (1392-
1400), 102

Oxford, John,twelfth Earl
of (1417-61), 160, 183,
218 ; his son Aubrey,
218

Oysyll, Harry, 60

Page, John, 45
Paheologns, John, Em-

perorof Constantinople,

182
Pardon from Rome,

general, 197
Paris, 16, 173, 178
Parker, Sir Harry, 228,

230
Paslewe, Ric, 66
Paul's, St. i&« St. Paul's

Paul's Cross, 98, 163, 182;

183, 228-230, 238
Pedwardyne, Thos., 116
Pembroke, John Hastings,

Earl of (1348-75), 89
Pembroke, Jasper Tudor,

Earl of (1452-61), 209,

211, 237
Pennewys, M. de, 13
Penyngton, Will., 225
Perche, Earl of, of Mor-

tain, 172
Percy, Sir Harry, first

Eiurl of Northumber-
land, 101
Percy, Harry (Hotspur),

son of the preceding,

101, 103
Percy, Sir Thomas, 96;

created Earl of Wor-
cester, 97 ; beheaded,

103
Percy, Sir Ralph, 219,

220, 224
Pemys, John, sheriff, 122
Perrys, Piers or Peter,

Mr., an English heretic

at Basle, 176
Pestilence, the third, 88
Peter. See Ferrn
Peter the Cruel of Castile,

88,89
Peytowe, Sir William,

182
Philip VL of France, 82,

84
Philip, son of John II.

of f^ce, 85
Philip the Good, Duke of

Bnrffundy. See Bur-
gundy
Philippa of Hainanlt,

Queen of Edward III.,

78 88
Philpott, John, 91
Picardy, 61, 179
Piers. See Perrys
Plantagenet, Ric. See

York, Dnke of
Fleshy (Plasche), the

Duke of Gloucester's

place, 96, 102
Plummer, Sir John, 236
Poitiers, battle of, 85

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Pole, Michael and Wil-

liMndela. i8b« Suffolk,

Earl of
Pole, Alexander de la,

brother of the fourth

Earl (afterwards Duke)

of Suffolk, 164
Pole, William de la. See

Suffolk
Pomfret, 227
Pont de I'Arche (Pount-

large), 2, 3, 10, 122
Pont Menhm (^Mylanke),

49; capitnlation of, 150

-3
Ponthien, 78
Ponthien, Count of, 86
Pontoiae, 16

Ponjnges, Lord, 141, 164
Popering in Flanders, 179
Porter, Sir William, 8
Portsmouth, 180, 183, 186,

189
Portugal, 34, 171
Porti^, Prince of, eon

of King John I., 168-
160, 166

Potyn, , 172

Poultry, the, 116

Pounynges, , 237

Powes, Edward Cherleton,

Lord (1400-22), 107
Prague, 162, 176
Preaus, Lord of, 160
Prussia. See Sprusse
Pucelle, the. See Joan of

Arc
Pullyngley, Sir John de,
160

Radcliff, Sir John, 164
Radington, Sir Baldwin,

94
Ramston, Sir Thos., 163-4
Rayenspur, Yorkshire, 101
Bawde (Hawley), Robert,

91
Raynewell, John, 164
Raynys, John de, 144, 148;

See aUo Rheims
Reading, 60, 226
Rcdcliff in Lancashire,

208

Redclyffe (qy. Redriff or

RoUierhithe), 237
Rheims (Raynys), Lord

of, 160
Rheims, Archbishop of ,181
Richard L, 61, 67 68
Richard II., 63; birth of,

88; made Prince of

Wales, 90; reign of, 90-

102; goestoIreland,96;

again, 101; buried at

Westminster, 107 ; crown

made by for himself,

167
Richemont, Count of , taken

prisoner at Agincourt,

112
Richmond, 79
RiTcrs, Richard Wood-

ville. Baron, afterwards

Earl(1448-69),206,216,

226
Robert of Normandy, 60
Robert, (Robesard), Sir

John, 38, 122
Roche, M. de, 13
Rochester, 197
Rochester, John Langdon,

Bishop of, 166, 167
Roet, Sir John, 96
Rome, a friar of, 232
Romney (wine), 161
Romys Termagyn (Ron-

mos Tremayn), John de,

143
Rone, Roon. See Rouen.
Roos, Lady, 140
Roos, John, Lord (1414-

21), 8
Roos (Rosse), Thomas^

Lord(1431-61),209,210,

216, 224, 226
Rouen (Rone), 61, 172,
173, 177, 189; Siege

of, 1-46 ; famine in t£o

city, 18; capitulation
of, 122-7
Round Table, 81
Roxburgh, 84
Russell, a traitor, 172
Russell, John, 226
Rutland, Edmund Earl of,
son of Richard Duke
of York, 210, 215

Rutland, Edward, Earl of,
created Duke of "Arun-
del** (Albemarle), 97

Rynelle, John, 164, 166

Sacrament of the altar,

106, 233
St Alban's, 160, 188;

first battle of, 198;

second battle of, 211-

16
St Amand, 81
St Anthony of Prussia,

order of, 67
St Bartholomew's, prior

of, 106
St Bartholomew the Less,

236
St Brieux. See Bryak
St Catherine's Abbey by

Rouen, 8, 11
St. Catherine's Hospital,

183, 188
St. Cross, Cardmal, 177
St David's, bishops of,

Benedict Nichols (1417-

33), 140; Thos. Rode-

bum (U33-42), 181
St Denis, in France, 149
St. Dunstan's in the East,

116, 187
St. Edmund of Pountney,

Archbishop of Canter-
bury, 66, 66
St Edmund's Bury, 91
St George, Feast of, 113
St George's, Sonthwark,

164,188
St. GUes's - in - the -Fields

108; gallows at, 116
St. John's Priory, Clerk-

enwell,91,108,167,191
St Martin's - le - Grand,

Dean of, 229
St Martin's- in -the- Vin*

tnr, 192
St Mary Axe, 180
St Mary-at-Uill, 102
St Mary Oyery's, 60, 104,

211
St Mary Spital, 98
St Micbaers ComhUI, 184

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St. Paul's Cathedral, 66,
69, 88, 101, 112-3, U8,
163, 175, 180, 184, 185,
195; school of, 230
St. Peter»s CorahUl, Par-
son of (Hugh Damelet),
233
St. Pol, Earl or Count of
(misnamed "Duke")»
176-7
St. Roger, Bishop of Lon-
don, 65
St. Stephen's Walbrook,

Parson of, 184
St. Thomas of Acres, 66,

171
St. Thomas Becket, 50, 62
S^isbury, Sir John of, 93
Salisbury, bishops of: John
Chaundeler (1417-26),
140 ; Richard Beau-
champ (1450-82), 237
Sali8bu]7,William (should
be John Waltham),
Bishop of, made Lord
Treasurer, 94
Salisbury, Bishop of (Wil-
liam Ayscough), mur-
dered (1450), 194
Salisbury, Earl of (John
de Montacute, 1397 -
1400), 102
Salisbury, Earlof(Thomas
de Montacute, 1409-28),
8, 116, 121, 122, 141,
150, 161-3
Salisbury, Earl of (Richard
Nevill, 1442-60), 163,
168, 172, 178, 198, 203,
204, 205, 210
SaWeyne, Sir John, 163
Sandwich, 162, 179, 206
Saracens, 57, 83
Savoy, the, 91
Sawtre, William, priest,

103
Say, Sir James Fynes,
Lord, Treasurer of Eng-
land, 192-3
Saye, Will., Dean of St.
Paul's and of the King's
Chapel, 203
Scales, Thos. Lord (1418-
60), 164, 193,211

INDEX.

Scales, Anthony Wood-

Yille, Lord (1461-9),

Earl Riyers (1469-83),

216, 236

Scarbrey, John Dnras or,

151
Scarcity of com, 83
Schyrbome. See Towton
Scluse. See Slays
Scotland, 52, 92, 102, 104,

189, 218, 221, 235
Scots, 84, 223, 224
Scots, Queen of (Mary of

Gueldres), 220
Scott (Schotte), WiU., 101
Scrope, Sir Harry, Lord,

109
Scrope, Ric, Archbishop

of York, 106
Scrope, Sir Will., created
Earl of Wiltshire, 97,
101
Scrope, of Bolton, Lord,

223
Senyer, John, of York,

225
Serjeants of the Coif, feast

of, 222
Serle, the Mercer, mayor,

60,61
Seyenoaks, Kent, 191
Sharpe, Jack, 172
Sheen (Schene), 171
Sherborne (Shyrbone),

Dors., 195
Sherbum (Towton), battle

of, 216
Sheriffs of London, 67.
See list of them in Ap-
pendix, pp. 241-58
Sheriffwick of London let

to farm, 63
Shooter's Hill, 178
Shrewsbury, 70, 97, 98,

100; battle of, 103
Shrewsbury, John Talbot,
first Earl of (1442-53).
See Talbot, John
ShrewsbuiT, John Talbot,
second Earl of (1453-
60), 207
Shrewsbury, John Talbot,
third Earl of (1460-73),
217

Sigismund, Emperor, 113,

169, 180
Skinner's Well, 105
Skyllyng, Michael, 200
Skyrys, Ric, 237
Sluys (Sduse), 81, 104,

220
Smithfield, 85, 93, 103, 105

(W*), 108, 171, 181, 183,

184, 187, 236
Solake, Sir John, 102
Somerset, John Beaufort,

Earl of, created Marquis

of Dorset (1397), 97
Somer8et,Henry Beaufort,

Earl of (U10-8)» 105
Somerset, John, Duke of

(1443-4), 185
Somerset, Edmund, Duke

of (1448-55), 196, 198
Somerset, Henry, Duke of
(1455-64), 203, 205, 206,
209, 210, 216, 219, 221,
223-5
Southampton (Hampton),

193 199
Southwark, 61, 77, 104,
159, 164, 188, 191, 193,
194, 237. See St.
Oeorge's ; St Maiy
Oyeiy's
Spain, 92, 171
Spain, Bishop of, 182 ; a

knight of, 183
Spain, King of, 235
Spalding, Piers of, 75
Spaniards, 83
Spencer, Edward, Lord,

(ob. 1375), 90
Spencer, lliomas. Lord,
created Earl of (Glouces-
ter (1397), 97 ; beheaded,
102
Spencer, Henry, Bishop of
Norwich (1370-1406),
92
Spencer, Sir Hugh, 76,

77
Sprusse (Prussia), ship of,

185
Spyller, WiHiam, 226

Stafford, , 207

Stafford, Anne, Countess
of, 140, 181

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277

Stafford, Hnmphiej, Earl
(1403), Dake of Back-
ingham (1444-60), 172,
181

Stafford, Edmund, Earl of
(1386-1403), 103

Stafford, Sir Humphrey,
191

Stafford, John, Arch-
bishop of Canterbary
(1443-62}. 193

Stafford, William, 191

Standard, the, in Cheap,
186, 192-3, 196

Stanhope Park, 78

Stanley, Sir John, 204

Stapleton, Walter, Bishop
of Exeter, 76

Stephen, King, 60

Stockton, John, mercer,
sheriff, 233

Stonys (or Stronee?), Sir
Adam of, 160

Story, Edward, DJ>., af-
terwards Bishop of Car-
lisle, 229

Strange (Stronge), Lord,
116

Straw, Jack, 91

Stywarde, Sir John, 139

Sudbnry, Simon, Arch-

Snffolk, Sir Michael de la
Pole, first Earl of (1386
-8), 93

Suffolk, Michael de la
Pole, third Earl of
(1416), slain at Agin-
court, 112

Suffolk, William de la
Pole, fourth Earl(1416),
and afterwards Duke of
(1448-60), 11, 139, 164,
186, 188. 189, 190

Surrey, Duke of (Thomas
Holland, 1397-1400), 97

Sussetyr. See Cirencester

Sussex, 194

Sutton, John, alderman,
193

Tailboys, Sir Will., of
South Kyme, 226

Talbot, Lady, 140
Talbot, Sir Gilbert, Lord,

7
Talhot, John, Lord (1421-

42), Earl of Shrewsbury

(1442-63), 164, 177, 184,

196
Tankerrille, Count of, 82,

86
Tartary, Emperor of, 82
Tayemer, Ric, 226
Tayloure, Will., 149
Tebayne Breste (?), a

Priest, 108
Templars, order of, 74
TereUe, Will., 218
Termagon, M. de, 13
Tetyr. See Tudor
Tewkesbury, 67, 90
Teyne, bastiird of, 14
Thames, 63, 104, 106, 183,

186
Therouenne, 176
Therouenne (Tyrwyne),

Bishop of, 180
Thomas, Lord, son of

Henry IV., 104, 106;

made Duke of Clarence,

106. See alio CiKTeuK^^

Duke of
Thomas, " Squyer and

Controller of the

Prince's house,'' 204
Throllope. See Trolley
Tiptree, prior of, 96
Todenham, Sir Thos., 196,

218
Tong, Michael, Mayor,
deposed forperjnry, 66
Tooke. See Tonquee
Topcliff (Copdyffe), 226
Torperley, Cheshire, 204
Touques (Tooke), lu Nor-
mandy, 116
Touraine, Arthur, Duke

of, 164
Toumay, 81

Tower of London, 60, 62,
66,73,91,107,164,172,
186, 193, 210, 218
Tower Hill, 91, 93, 96,
97, 116, 171, 183, 184,
233, 237

Towton (Schyrbome),

Battle of, 216
Tresham, , knighted,

214, 217
Tresham, (WiL), Speaker

of Parliament, 196
Tresilian (Tre^lyon in

text), Sir Bob., chief

justice, 93
Trim (Trynne) Castle, in

belaud, 168
Trinity, Order of the, 68
Trollope - (Throllope),

Andrew; 206, knighted,

214, 217
Troyes, treaty of, 128-38
Trusselle, Sir John, 116
Tudor (Tetyr), Owen, 21 1
Turks, great slaughter of

the, 197
Tnrmyn, Bic, 108
Tutvyle (EstouteTille),

the Lord, 109
Twyford, Sir Nich., 91
Tybbey, a clerk, 108 nete
T^rbum, 66, 93, 102-4,

167, 161, 184, 188. 237
Tykay, a miest, 108, note
T^tyr. See Tudor

Umfrayille, Sir Gilbert,

9, 23-8, 33, 122
Upton, John, 171
Urmounde. See Ormond
Uttyng, Sir Thomas, 204

Varru (Barm), bastard

de, 143. 144, 148
Varru (Barm), Denis de,

143, 144, 148
Vasquyes, John, de

Almiada,122
Vendome (Wendon),

Count of, 182
Vere, Aubrey de, son of

the twelfth Earl of

Oxford, 218
Veraeuil (Vemey), in

Perche, Battle of, 167
Versy, Roger of. 160
Vyse. the. See Demes.

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INDEX.

Wakefield, BatUe of, 210,
212, 215

Wakefylde, Hen. Bishop
of Worcester (1376-94),
89

Walbrook, parson of St
Stephen's, 184

Walden, 233

Waldon, Boger (not Ro-
bert), Archbishop of
Canterbury. 97-100, 103

Wales, 62, 62, 102, 107,
206, 208, 216, 223

Wallace, WilUam, 73

Waltham, Abbot of, 140

Walworth, Will., mayor,
knighted, 91

Warde, , of Topcliflf,

226

Warwick, Thos. Bean-
champ, Earl of (1369.
1401), 92, 96-6

Warwick, Ric. Bean-
champ, Earl of (1401-
39), 10, 11, 23, 114, 122,
139, 148, 162, 166, 168,
172, 180, 181

Warwick, Henr^ Bean-
champ, Earl 01, created
Dnke of, 186

Warwick, Ric. Neyill, Earl
of (1449-71), 198, 204-7,
211, 212, 216, 216, 220,
223, 227

Wattys, Rob., 226

Wawe, Will., 161

Waynflete, Will., Bishop
of Winche8ter(1447-86),
193

Wedynton. See Whit-
tington

Weirs in the Thames, 63,
104

Weldynton, Yorkshire, 101

Wellys, Lord (1361-1421),
93; Leo,Lord(l421-61),
216-7

Wellys, John, Alderman
of London, 180, 184

Wenlock, Sir John, Lord
Wenlock(146l-71),206,
214, 237

Wentworthe, Oliver, 226

Wentworth, Sir Philip,

224, 226
Westminster, 61-63, 69,80,

84,96,96,100,102,149,

160, 176, 179. 183, 184,

189, 196, 208, 214, 218,

219
Westminster, Abbot of,

166
Westminster, monks of,

102
Westminster, Prior of,

166
Westminster, the King's

palace at, 196, 208
Westminster Hall, 139
Westmoreland, Countess

of, 140
Westmoreland, Ralph Ne-

Yill, first Earl of (1397-

1426), 97, 140, 141
Whelpdale, Roger. See

Carlisle, Bishop of
Whitechapel, 164, 192
White HaU, the, at WesU

minster, 166
White Hart, the, in Sonth-

wark, 191, 194
White Friars, 97, 104,

171. See also Friars,

White
Whittington (Wedynton),

Ric. 96, 100, 166; his

college, 228
Whytehorn, Thos., 199,

201
Whytyngham, Robert,

knighted, 214, 217
Williun the Conqueror,

49
William Rufus, 49
William with the Long

Beard, 68
Willoughby (Wylby),

Lady, 140
Willoughby, Rob., Lord

(1409-62), 8, 139
Willoughby, Ric. WeUes,

Lord (1466-69), 216
Wiltshire and Ormond,

Sir Jas. Butler, Earl

of, 198, 211, 217
Winchelsea, 83, 104

Winchester, 49, 68, 78,

188, 199, 201; Wyke-

ham's college at, 203
Winchester, Bishop of.

See Beaufort, Henry;

Waynflete, Will.
Windsor, 62, 81, 86, 107,

113, 142; dean of (Th.

Mannyng), 233
Wingfield (Wynkylfylde),

Suff. 190
Woodecock, John, Sheriff,

101
Woodeyyle, Ric, 160, 168 ;

Sir Richard, 182, 183
Woodrille, Eliz., Queen

of Edward IV., 226
Wool, staples of, 84
Worcester, 61
Worcester, Bishop of. See

Wakefylde,Henry (1376

-94); Morgan, Philip

(1419-26)
Worcester, Earl of (Ric.

Beanchamp 1420-31),

139
Worcester, Earl of (John

Tiptoft, 1449-70), 221,

222
Wortham, Parson of, 116
Wryxham, Will., 236
Wyche, Sir Ric, 183
Wycliffe, John, 163
Wygmersche, 211
Wynkylfylde. SeeWixig-

Wynterbome, Dr., 229
Wyntyrsell, Sir Thos. 102

Toik, 94, 104, 168, 210,

218. 223, 226
York, William of, 66
York, Archbishop of.

See Kemp, J. ; Neville,

Geo.
York, Philippa, Duchess

of, widow of Edward,

second dnke, 139
York, Duke of (Edmund

of Langley), 92, 101.

See alio Cambridge,

Earl of

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York, Duke of (Edward
son of the preceding),
slain at Affinconrt, 111

York, Bichard Flan-
tagenetyDiikeof, father

INDEX.

York — oowtinttsd
of Edward IV., 160,
178,180 183,189,196,
196,198,206,208,210,
216, 218

279

York, Cecily, Duchess of,
wife of the preceding,
206, 207, 208

Yorkshire, 221

Yownser, •

108

ERRATA.

Page 17d. Marginal date shonld be <' 1435-6."

Page 210, 1. 12. DeU comma after '< )»e."

Page 211, 1. 18. For " all eway " read «* alleway."

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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL

QF

THE CAMDEN SOCIETY,

READ AT THE GENERAL MEETING
ON THE 2nd MAY, 1876.

Thb Council of the Camden Society elected on the 3rd May, 1875,
deeply regret the loss of one of their number^

William Durrant Cooper^ Esq., F.S.A.

Mr. Cooper was not only the Editor of some of the Society's publications,
in which character he is doubtless best known to most of the Members,
but he was a constant attendant at the meetings of the Council, always
ready to contribute valuable advice and criticism ; his learning and his
practical acquaintance with business will be often missed by those with
whom he so heartily co-operated in the interests of the Society.

Another Member of the Society who has been removed from us during
the past year and who deserves especial mention is

John Forster, Esq.

Though ill health of late years precluded his attendance at the Council
meetings, he always took a deep interest in the progress of the Society.

Mr. Forster*s historical and biographical works are too well known to
require any mention here. It is deeply to be regretted that the " Life of
Swift,'' on which he was engaged at the time of his death, should have
remained uncompleted.

The Council are sorry to add the following List of Members who have
died during the past year :

James Bladon, Esq.
J. W. Thrupp, Esq.

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Jambs Cobb^ Esq.

William Blandy, Esq.

Charles Blandy, Esq.

Cosmo Innes, Esq.

The. Very Reverend The Dean of Chichester.

Robert Davies, Esq.

Henry Gregory, Esq.

The Right Hon. T. H. Sothbron Estcourt.

The Rev. Dr. Parkinson.

During the same interval the following new Members have been elected :
Lord Delamere.

The Honourable Henry F. Cowper, M.P.
James Rae, Esq.
Edward Walmisley, Esq.
Major Franc Sadleir Stoney, R.A.
J. Anderson Rose, Esq.
The University op Prague.
Wentworth Huyshe, Esq.
Nottingham Free Public Libraries.
Walter Money, Esq.
J. W. Hales, Esq.

The following books for the past year are now in the hands of Members :

I. The Camden Miscellany, Vol. VII. Containing, 1. The Boy Bishop. Edited by
the late J. G. Nichols, F.S. A. and Dr. Rimb ault. 2. The Speech of the Attorney-
General Heath in the Star Chamber against Alexander Leighton. Edited by Uie
late John Bruce, F.S. A. and S. R. Gardiner, 3. The Judgment of Sir G.
Croke in the Case of Ship Money. Edited by S. R. Gardiner. 4. Accounts of the
Building of Bodmin Church. Edited by the Rev. J. J. Wilkinson, M.A. 5. The
Mission of Sir T. Roe to GustaTUs Adolphus. Edited by S. H. Gardiner.

II. Letters of Humphrey Prideaux to John Ellis. 1674-1722. Edited by E. M-
Thompson.

III. The Autobiography of Anne Lady Halkett. Edited by the late John Gough
Nichols, F.S.A.

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The books for the year 1876-7 will probably be —

I. Milton's Common Place Book. Edited by A. J. Horwood. (Ready.)

II. The Siege of Rouen, and other papers relating to the Reign of Henry VI.
Edited by Jambs Gairdnbr. (In the Press.)

III. Papers illustrative of the Life of William Prynne. With a Biographical
Fragment by the late John Brucb, F.S.A. To be edited by S. R. Gardiner.

The following books have been added to the list of suggested pub-
lications : —

Letters treating of the Domestic A&irs of the Priory of Christ Church, Canter,
bury in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. To be edited by J. B. Shbppard.

The Economy of the Fleet, throwing light on the condition of the Fleet Prison in
the Reign of James I. To be edited by Dr. A. Jessopp.

The Council are glad to think that the publications of late years, issued
by the Society, fully maintain the character and value of those issued in
its long series of historical works. They see no reason to think that there
will in the future be any lack of materials, especially considering that the
researches into ancient libraries by the Historical Manuscripts Commis-
sion yearly bring to light fresh treasures of knowledge. No effort will be
wanting on their part to ensure to the Members a succession of works
which shall maintain the character of the Society.

The Council has resolved to offer such of the copies as remain on hand
of the volumes belonging to the First Series (only) at reduced prices, as
there are no longer any perfect sets. Copies of the present list of prices
are to be obtained at Messrs. Nichols^ 25, Parliament Street.

By x>rder of the Council,

Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Director.
Alfred Kingston, Hon, Secretary.

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REPORT OF THE AUDITORS.

I^ being one of the Auditors appointed to audit the Accounts of the Camden
Society, report to the Society, that the Treasurer has exhibited to me an Account of
the Receipts and Expenditure from the 1st of April 1875 to the 31st of March 1876,
and that I have examined the said accounts, with the vouchers relating thereto, and
find the same to be correct and satisfactory.

And I further report that the following is an Abstract of the Receipts and Expen-
diture during the period I have mentioned : —

Rbcbipts.

£ t. rf. I

To Balance of last year'saccount.. 582 11 6

Received on account of Members
whose Subscriptions were in ar-
rear at last Audit 83

The like on account of Subscriptions

due on the 1st of May, 1875 251 3

The like on account of Subscriptions

due on the 1st of May, 1876 16

To Repayment for Transcript 50

One year's dividend on ^^466 3 1
3 per Cent. Consols, standing in
the names of the Trustees of the
Society, deducting Income Tax.. 13 17 6

To Sale of Publications of past

years 46 19 7

To Sale of Promptorium Parrulorum

(3 vols, in 1) 9 17 3

Expenditure.

Paid for printing 500 copies Quarrel between Man-
chester and Cromwell. No. 18

Paid for printing 500 copies Autobiography of Lady
Anne Halkett. No. 13

Paid for printing 500 copies Camden Miscellany.
Vol. VII. No. 14 ^

Paid for printing 500 Copies Letters of Humphrey
Pri({eauz. No. 15 <

Paid for Miscellaneous Printing

Paid for delivery and transmission of Books, with
paper for wrappers, warehousing expenses (in-
cluding Insurance)

Paid for 500 Copies of three Fac-similes of Milton's
Common-place Book

Paid for binding

Paid for making various Transcripts

Paid for postages, collecting, country expenses, &c. ...

£ #.

A.

52 17

3

43 4

9

92 €

6

68 12
7 13

3

31 1

8

30

85 16

14 3

4 3

4
9

4

By Balance .

£Aa» 18 10
... 564 7 3

£993 6 1

;^93 6 1

And I further state, that the Treasurer has reported to me, that over and above
the present balance of £564 7^* ^d. there are outstanding various subscriptions of
Foreign Members, and of Members resident at a distance from London^ which the
Treasurer sees no reason to doubt will shortly be received.

GsoRGfi F. Smith.

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